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The Death of the Non-Compete Clause May Be Imminent

Feb 26, 2024 Sandeep Vaheesan and Daniel Hanley

Sandeep Vaheesan and Daniel Hanley on the coercive nature of non-compete clauses and recent efforts to outlaw such contracts.

April 21, 2023
News & Commentary

Julio Colby

NLRB lays out remedies for repeat violators; Labor Secretary nominee Su confirmation hearing; FTC noncompete ban receives 25,000 comments.

July 8, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Yesterday, the White House announced that President Biden plans to issue an executive order encouraging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to restrict businesses’ use of employee non-compete agreements. So-called “non-competes”, which ban or restrict workers from seeking similar jobs at rival firms, are employed by roughly half of all private-sector businesses in the United States […]

August 30, 2019
News & Commentary

Deanna Krokos

It has been a busy month for the NLRB. In a 3-1 party-line decision on Thursday, the board upheld an agency judge’s ruling that misclassifying workers as independent contractors does not violate federal labor law. The ruling rested on the conclusion that misclassification does not interfere with the right to organize protected by the National […]

July 18, 2017
News & Commentary

Maddy Finucane

Tufts Medical Center nurses returned to work yesterday, ending a four-day lockout. As we recapped this weekend, the Massachusetts Nurses Association struck last Wednesday in the midst of a contract dispute. Tufts hired replacement nurses, whose five-day contracts led to the lockout. The Boston Globe raises the possibility that patient care worsened during the strike […]

Employment without an Exit

Jun 2, 2017 tgerstein

This post originally appeared on ACSblog. Terri Gerstein is a Leadership in Government Fellow, Open Society Foundations, a Fellow at the Harvard Labor and Worklife Program, and the former Labor Bureau Chief, Office of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman A sandwich maker in a shop that’s part of a national chain. A cub […]

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