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Non-compete clauses in employment agreements typically prevent former employees from working for a competitor of the former employer for a specific period of time in a designated geographical area.

It was a fall season unlike any other for Andrade, who was released from WWE in a cloud of controversy in September, showed up on "AEW Dynamite" just a few weeks later, and then no sooner disappeared, ...

"The government will likely protect lower-paid employees with an outright ban on non-competes," says Fladgate's Michael McCartney The government launched a consultation on the proposed reform of ...

The number of High Court claims brought by employers to enforce non-compete clauses is surging as the job market slows and former employees launch rival businesses, a law firm has claimed. According ...

Non-compete clauses limit employees from joining competitors to protect business interests. The FTC proposed banning non-competes, potentially increasing wages by $300 billion. Four states have banned ...

Court upheld the dismissal of a hotel supervisor for serving as a director in a newly established facility in the same area. The Employment and Labour Relations Court has upheld the dismissal of a ...

Let’s say you have a dispute with someone – perhaps an employee, a vendor, or a competitor. Once the dispute is resolved, you want peace of mind that the other party will not undermine or disparage ...

On Tuesday, Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of Texas struck down a Federal Trade Commission regulation barring noncompete clauses from employment contracts. Businesses routinely impose ...

A US federal court in Texas set aside the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) new ban on non-compete clauses Tuesday, holding that the agency lacked the authority to issue the ban and that the new rule ...