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.
As you will recall, 37 states — i.e., more than 3/4 of all states — have been taking a hard look at their noncompete laws in the past several years, with 24 states, plus D.C., making changes....
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.
As you may remember, the D.C. Council voted in December 2020 to ban noncompetes (in most instances) in the District. Well, it’s projected to become law (pending Congress's approval) on March 19. If the bill goes through, it requires immediate affirmative conduct and carries potentially hefty fines for violations.
D.C. Mayor signed a bill to ban virtually all noncompetes for employees in D.C. It is likely to take effect in about a month, requires some affirmative conduct, and carries potentially hefty fines for violations. This is a law that you need to stay ahead of.
Despite the misinformation, despite that the last ban on noncompetes was in Oklahoma before it was a state, and despite that literally every state in the past decade to consider a ban has rejected it, the D.C. Council has yielded to the rhetoric and voted to ban noncompetes. Next step: the bill now sits with D.C.’s mayor.
What concept did President Obama, President-elect Biden, and 47 states – including every single state to consider the issue in the past decade – reject? A ban on noncompetes.
What bill did the Council of the District of Columbia Committee on Labor & Workforce Development just vote to approve? Yep: a ban on noncompetes.
What bill did the Council of the District of Columbia Committee on Labor & Workforce Development just vote to approve? Yep: a ban on noncompetes.
New year, new laws, new issues: First, at the state level... A number of states have modified their noncompete laws last year: Florida: banned noncompetes for specialist physicians in certain...
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Having recently completed my second roundup of new noncompete legislation, I have updated my 50 State Noncompete Chart to reflect the changes since the April update. (See Legislative Update: Recent...
On May 8, 2019, HB 1450 (“An Act Relating to restraints, including noncompetition covenants, on persons engaging in lawful professions, trades, or businesses; adding a new chapter to Title 49 RCW; a...
As more people flowed from to Washington from California than anywhere else in the country (thank you William Molinski and Andrew Arranger of Orrik), Washington has over the past few years introdu...
Having looked back over the last couple of years, I realized that I have failed to provide enough updates on issues and cases making trade secrets | noncompete news. So, I am going to try to resume...
I have at least had a chance to read the December 27, 2012 decision of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington in Amazon.com v. Powers, granting in part and denying in...