Category Archives: Noncompete Bill

Newly updated criminal penalties for a violation of noncompete law are not enough for Colorado — or maybe they’re too much. Colorado has made sweeping changes to its noncompete law, while scaling back (or at least cleared up ambiguity around) potential criminal liability for using unenforceable noncompetes.

With one month left and no agreed-upon fix to D.C.’s problematic noncompete law, the D.C. Council has voted to postpone the law’s effective date until October 1, 2022.

Legislative activity is picking up again, and therefore so are we. This year, there have been a total of 67 noncompete bills in 22 states,1 plus four pending federal noncompete bills and a bill t...

The D.C. Council held two proceedings related to its recent noncompete ban last week. During both, at-Large Councilmember Elisa Silverman recommended pushing back the implementation date of the new law to April 1, 2022. During the hearing, the Council received wide-ranging testimony about a potential amendment: some objective, verifiable input and some partisan rhetoric; some spot on and some inaccurate. Now we wait.

Nevada too has modified its noncompete law. Effective October 1, 2021, among other things, noncompetes cannot be used for hourly workers and employers will be at risk of paying attorney’s fees for violating certain aspects of the law.

Two new noncompete laws in the past week or so: Illinois and Nevada. Discussed below, Illinois will have a completely overhauled noncompete law starting in January 2022 and Nevada will have tweaks to its law starting in October of this year.

Oregon is back in the news! New Hampshire’s bills, which were supposed to be next in this series, will have to wait. About three weeks ago, I told you that Oregon had three pending noncompete bil...

If you’ve been following along, you know that there have been 65 noncompete bills in 25 states so far this year1 — excluding the two pending federal noncompete bills, D.C.’s new law to ban mo...

Missouri at last! But, before turning to it, for those keeping count, there have been 65 noncompete bills in 25 states so far this year1 — excluding the two pending federal noncompete bills, D....

So far this year, there have been 65 noncompete bills pending in 25 states — excluding the two pending federal noncompete bills, D.C.’s new law to ban most noncompetes, and any proposed bills that are circulating, but have not yet been filed. Five bills have died — leaving the current tally at 59 noncompete bills still pending in 21 states. Today’s post covers the three bills pending in Oregon.

So far this year, there have been 65 noncompete bills pending in 25 states — excluding the two pending federal noncompete bills, D.C.’s new law to ban most noncompetes, and any proposed bills that are circulating, but have not yet been filed. Five bills have died — leaving the current tally at 59 noncompete bills still pending in 21 states. Today’s post covers the three bills pending in New York, including New York’s late-breaking proposal to ban virtually all noncompetes.