Regardless of the Supreme Courtroom’s latest 6-3 ruling in West Virginia v. EPA that regulatory companies should have “clear congressional authorization” to make guidelines pertaining to “main questions” which are of “nice political significance” and would have an effect on “a good portion of the American financial system,” and the import of that ruling to the realm of noncompete regulation (which we addressed intimately in Law360), the Federal Commerce Fee (FTC) and Nationwide Labor Relations Board (NLRB) introduced yesterday that they’re teaming as much as tackle sure points affecting the labor market, together with the regulation of noncompetes.

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As readers of this weblog probably know, many states have fully completely different statutory schemes for noncompetes within the healthcare business. Certainly, whereas 47 states typically allow noncompetes, greater than a dozen expressly prohibit or restrict them in sure sectors of the healthcare business – sometimes for patient-facing clinicians.

For instance, in Massachusetts, noncompetes aren’t permissible in “[a]ny contract or settlement which creates or establishes the phrases of a partnership, employment, or another type of skilled relationship with a doctor registered to follow medication . . . , which incorporates any restriction of the best of such doctor to follow …

Now on Spilling Secrets, our podcast series on the future of non-compete and trade secrets law:

On May 31, 2023, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memo stating her position that non-compete agreements violate the National Labor Relations Act. So, what does this mean for employers?

Epstein Becker Green attorneys and Spilling Secrets hosts Peter A. Steinmeyer and Erik W. Weibust are joined by featured guest attorneys Steven M. Swirsky and Erin E. Schaefer to forecast the impact employers may face in the wake of this memo.

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Tune in to Spilling Secrets,…

Our colleagues Peter A. Steinmeyer, Erik W. Weibust, and Angel A. Perez, attorneys at Epstein Becker Inexperienced, co-authored a 2022 Thomson Reuters Sensible Regulation Apply Observe titled “Moral Points for Attorneys Associated to Restrictive Covenants.”

Following is an excerpt (see beneath to obtain the complete model in PDF format):

Corporations throughout the US generally use non-compete agreements and different restrictive covenants to guard the corporate’s official enterprise pursuits. These agreements are used with staff in any respect ranges however usually concentrate on these with entry to the corporate’s commerce secrets and techniques and confidential data. In-house attorneys, …

As we have now beforehand reported, the Colorado Meeting handed sweeping modifications to the state’s noncompete legislation that, amongst different issues, (1) set compensation flooring for enforcement of each noncompetes ($101,250) and buyer non-solicitation agreements ($60,750), which will likely be adjusted yearly primarily based on inflation; (2) require a separate, standalone discover to workers earlier than a brand new or potential employee accepts a proposal of employment, or at the very least 14 days earlier than the sooner of: (a) the efficient date of the restrictions, or (b) the efficient date of any further compensation or modifications within the phrases …