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Join me and my friends on Wednesday, December 11 for HR Festivus. (And it’s free)

At Noon ET, Amy Epstein Gluck, Michael Elkins, and I will present “What the Legal Landscape Looks Like for 2025.” Come hang with us for an hour while we cover key legal updates for 2025. Our friends at HR Learns, who are hosting this event, have pre-approved our sesh for…

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Think the FTC is done taking on restrictive covenants? Think again!

Yesterday, 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 employees. Some of you are probably thinking that you read somewhere—possibly here—that a federal court enjoined the FTC’s sweeping…

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Join us today at Noon ET on Zoom to learn how November’s election results may impact employment laws in 2025

In the wake of election results earlier this month that will result in a Republican president and a Republican-controlled Congress in 2025, it’s reasonable to expect some changes in employment law. I’ve assembled an all-star panel of employment lawyers to explore them, including my partners Amy Epstein Gluck and Dessi Day and two…

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Join us on November 19 at Noon ET on Zoom for a look at how November’s election results may impact employment laws in 2025

After Tuesday, we have a newly elected Republican president, a Senate soon under Republican control, and a House of Representatives that could still hold a Republican majority. With those changes could come some corresponding shifts in employment law. Typically, when administrations change, so does the makeup of the federal administrative…

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The FTC is all-in on its proposed noncompete ban, appealing the nationwide injunction against it.

On Friday afternoon, the Federal Trade Commission notified a federal judge in Texas who had previously entered a nationwide injunction against its sweeping noncompete ban that the agency would appeal her decision to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The judge had previously ruled that Congress did not afford the FTC statutory authority to create…

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The FTC is appealing one of its non-compete losses. Should employers be nervous?

Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission filed a notice of appeal with the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, signifying that it will ask the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a trial judge’s August 15 decision to enjoin enforcement of its sweeping noncompete ban. Should…

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FTC: It may be more than a year before a court greenlights our non-compete rule — if at all

The Federal Trade Commission, the architects of the sweeping noncompete ban that a federal judge in Texas set aside last month, told a federal judge in Pennsylvania yesterday that an appeal of the Texas decision “would likely take months to fully brief and could take a year or longer until…

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Three reasons why a Texas federal court may block the FTC’s noncompete rule nationwide

At noon ET today on Zoom, we aim to cover everything employers need to know now about the Federal Trade Commission’s blunderbuss Non-Compete Rule. (We may have a few seats left. Click here to register for this free Zoom powered by HRLearns.) If we don’t actually cover “everything” this afternoon, I wanted to highlight here three arguments from a brief…

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Mark your calendars for two FREE employment law webinars this month.

I receive email alerts from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that include information on upcoming webinars. Most of them cost money to attend. But every once in a while, there’s a freebie. Like this one. “Navigating Pregnancy and Nursing for Working Mothers” Starting today, the EEOC and the U.S.…

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Join us on 8/13/24 at Noon ET for “Everything Employers Need to Know Now About the FTC’s Non-Compete Rule”

The FTC’s rule banning non-competes takes effect on September 4, 2024. Before then, employers must notify most employees that their noncompetition agreements are unenforceable. However, several pending lawsuits aim to block the rule. Although, none have succeeded…yet. What does the Rule require? What are the chances that these lawsuits will…