Here are 25 million reasons to be careful when poaching your competitor's key employees. In a recent federal case, medical device compan...

It was only a matter of time before a federal court blocked the FTC's noncompete rule , which would have banned virtually all noncompete...

There's more than one way to skin a cat … or at least that's what many employers are hoping. Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission...

Boston Beer Co., the brewer of Sam Adams and other craft beverages, is taking heat for its overuse of noncompete agreements. In a recent art...

“Competition is fine, cheating is not.” That’s what Elon Musk tweeted after Twitter’s lawyer’s cease and desist letter to Mark Zuckerberg ...

In my view, the proffer, maintenance, and enforcement of a non-compete provision that reasonably tends to chill employees from engaging in ...

National Labor Relations Board and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announce new partnership to address employer surveillance, monitorin...

Donny Blaze was a former student of Kamar-Taj, having dropped out after failing to adhere to their strict teachings. He left, however, with ...

It's been nearly five years since I asked this question : "Is your non-compete agreement killing a fly with a sledgehammer?" N...

"Can she do that?" That was the question my wife asked me as we watched last night's interview of Frances Haugen, the Facebook...

On Friday, President Biden signed an Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy . According to the Order, its goal is ...

Growing up in Philadelphia, there are few things more beloved than the Phillie Phanatic. Which is why I’m so intrigued by the lawsuit th...

A recent op-ed in the USAToday argues that the federal government should outlaw noncompete agreements because they trap workers in abusiv...

If you haven’t yet watched this week’s episode of Game of Thrones , consider yourself warned. There are spoilers below. Turn back now if y...

As many as 60% of employees who are laid-off, fired, or quit admit to stealing company data. Sometimes, they download information on thei...

All the way back in October 2014 , I wrote about an Illinois Jimmy John's franchisee that had required all of its employees to sign a No...

Hall v. Edgewood Partners Ins. Center (6th Cir. 12/14/18) [pdf] asks a question that we see arise often in litigation with former employee...

There is a right way to quit a job, and a wrong way to quit a job. Last week, a Twitter employee demonstrated the worst of the latter.

An Apple employee lost his job this week after his daughter, Brooke Amelia Peterson, posted a YouTube video of her dad’s brand new, unrelea...

In Bankers Life and Casualty Company v. American Senior Benefits  (Ill. Ct. App. 8/7/17) , Bankers Life sued a former sales manager, Grego...