Our 50-state (plus DC) chart of noncompete laws has been updated to reflect a Nevada Supreme Court decision and is available here.
Our 50-state (plus D.C.) noncompete law chart has been updated to reflect various state law changes, and is available here.
Our 50-state (plus DC) chart of noncompete laws has been updated for Kentucky (healthcare exemptions), Maryland (low-wage), and Minnesota (total noncompete ban), and is available here.
Maryland will be increasing its threshold for the use of noncompetes with low-wage workers starting October 1, and again each of the next few years.
Our 50-state (plus DC) chart of noncompete laws has been updated and is available here.
Eleven states plus Washington, D.C. have wage thresholds or other criteria that must be satisfied before a noncompete can be used. We now know that six have increased. Are your noncompetes still compliant?
The day an employee shows up for their first day of work is often the day they learn that a noncompete is a requirement of the job. But, according to a 2015 study by Professors Evan Starr, J.J. Prescott, and Norm Bishara, providing advance notice that a noncompete will be required actually leads to 11% more training and 6.6% more job satisfaction. Eight states plus D.C. now have some requirements. Make sure you are complying.
Eleven states plus Washington, D.C. have wage thresholds or other criteria that must be satisfied before a noncompete can be used. They are changing again. Will your noncompetes be compliant?
Eleven states plus Washington, D.C. now have wage thresholds or other criteria that must be satisfied before a noncompete can be used. Are your noncompetes compliant?
The day an employee shows up for their first day of work is often the day they learn that a noncompete is a requirement of the job. But, according to a 2015 study by Professors Evan Starr, J.J. Prescott, and Norm Bishara, providing advance notice that a noncompete will be required actually leads to 11% more training and 6.6% more job satisfaction.
The day an employee shows up for their first day of work is often the day they learn that a noncompete is a requirement of the job. But, according to a 2015 study by Professors Evan Starr, J.J. Prescott, and Norm Bishara, providing advance notice that a noncompete will be required actually leads to 11% more training and 6.6% more job satisfaction.
Eleven states now have wage thresholds or other criteria that must be satisfied before a noncompete can be used. Are your noncompetes compliant?
Ten states now have wage thresholds or other criteria that must be satisfied before a noncompete can be used. Are your noncompetes ready?
Three and half months into 2021, and there have been 59 bills pending in 23 states (not counting 2 federal bills, a new DC law, or any proposed bills that are circulating, but have not yet been filed). Four bills have already died — each in a state that had only one pending bill — leaving the current tally at 55 bills pending in 19 states. Today’s post covers the two bills pending in Louisiana.
Virginia is the latest state to follow the trend of imposing a ban on the use of noncompetes for low-wage workers (however defined) and rejecting a California/Oklahoma/North Dakota-style wholesale ba...