Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home

 Just a brief post to note that, as I predicted , a red state judge, at the urging of Republicans, has blocked the FTC from implementing its...

 You may not have been paying attention to the Supreme Court's recent decision about fishing , but it's yuuuge. They overturned a ru...

President Biden issued an executive order that all federal agencies look into noncompete agreements, and they have been doing so. The FTC r...

The long-awaited rule from the Federal Trade Commission regarding noncompetes was released yesterday, and it's a doozy. The FTC "h...

 The NLRB General Counsel is taking the position that noncompete agreements in employment and severance agreements violates the National La...

 Although we've been hoping that the FTC would come through on its proposed rule banning or limiting noncompete agreements, it looks li...

 You don't have a copy of your noncompete and can't figure out how to get one without asking management, who would definitely penali...

 The Federal Trade Commission is proposing a complete ban on agreements banning former employees and independent contractors from going to w...

 I wrote awhile back about President Biden's executive order on noncompete agreements . In it, he asked the FTC and other agencies to lo...

 If you are a regular reader, you've probably noticed that I haven't done any predictions in the past few years. Because how could a...

 I've had some clients get very excited about the news that President Biden's new executive order seeks to curtail noncompete agree...

Once legislators woke up to the fact that employers were running amok with noncompete agreements, imposing them on sandwich makers and other...

For the first time in many years, the Florida legislature actually did something pro-employee. Well, at least, pro-doctor. Here's the ne...

In a new low for management side, the Wall Street Journal exposed the ugly practice of intern noncompetes. That's right. Intern. Noncom...

In a possible sign of the apocalypse, I actually agree with something my state's Senator, Sen. Marco Rubio, has done. I'm stunned bu...

Many times, employees ask me if their employer can enforce a noncompete or nonsolicitation agreement they never signed. The short answer is ...

So I received this email: Ms. Ballman;  I happened to come across your article from 2011 regarding 10 Workplace Rights You Think you Hav...

Florida has a real chance to turn the governorship and some legislative seats blue this year. Because Florida is one of the worst states for...

It won't pass, but a group of Democrats in the U.S. Senate have proposed a bill that would ban noncompete agreements . The Workforce Mob...

The Department of Justice's Antitrust Division is serious about going after employers who agree not to poach a competitor's employee...