Tag: Trade Secrets and Restrictive Covenants

Here’s why the FTC thinks its non-compete rule will survive a legal challenge

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Last week, the Federal Trade Commission responded to efforts by a Texas business and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to convince a Texas federal judge to block the Federal Trade Commission’s final Non-compete Rule, which would impose a comprehensive ban on new non-competes with all workers, including senior executives. The FTC’s brief is […]

The world’s largest HR organization does NOT support the FTC’s non-compete rule

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The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), with nearly 340,000 members in 180 countries (of which I am one), filed an amicus brief last week in a lawsuit pending in Texas in which it supported efforts to block the Federal Trade Commission’s final non-compete Rule. The FTC seeks to impose a comprehensive […]