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esterday, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it had ordered a building services contractor to stop enforcing a no-hire agreement. The agreement purportedly prohibited building owners and managers from hiring the contractor’s employe
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. Some of you are probably thinking that you read somewhere—possibly here—that a federal court enjoined the FTC’s sweeping non-compete ban. This is true. The injunction remains in effect. However, the FTC remains committed to preventing unfair competition, and these no-hire agreements placed this particular employer directly in the federal agen
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y’s crosshairs. In its complaint against the company, the FTC alleged that the employer included no-hire agreements in its