A federal judge has blocked the Federal Trade Commission’s ban on noncompete agreements that make it difficult for workers to join their employers’ rivals or launch competing businesses.

That was set to change in early September after the US Federal Trade Commission approved a near-total ban on such provisions, but on Aug. 20 a federal judge blocked the rule, saying the FTC lacked ...

Headquartered in North St. Louis County, Express Scripts, a subsidiary of The Cigna Group, is demanding the FTC retract a ...

A federal judge shot down the FTC’s rule banning noncompete agreements, a setback for the agency’s effort to free workers from restrictive employment contract terms. The commission said it is ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I'm an antitrust expert and former FTC general counsel. On August 20, federal trial court judge Ada Brown in the Northern District of Texas ...

A federal judge in Texas yesterday blocked the Federal Trade Commission's attempt to ban noncompete agreements that make it difficult for workers to change jobs or start new businesses.

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A federal judge in Texas has blocked a new rule from the Federal Trade Commission that would have made it easier for employees to quit a job and work for a competitor. In a ruling Tuesday ...

"The FTC lacks substantive rulemaking authority with respect to unfair methods of competition," she wrote. "The role of an administrative agency is to do as told by Congress, not to do what the ...

The Federal Trade Commission said Monday that Care.com had agreed to a proposed $8.5 million settlement to address what the FTC called “unlawful practices,” which include misleading both the ...

Yesterday afternoon (August 20, 2024), the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas blocked the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Final Rule banning most non-competition ...