Many employers have granted their white collar workers increased flexibility to work remotely in response to the pandemic. As a result, some employees have moved away from the areas surrounding their offices and into places with lower costs or higher quality of living. In cases where an employee with a non-compete moves to a state such as California, which has a prohibition against any “contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind,” that can present potential problems for a Company. Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code. § 16600.
Our colleagues Janene Marasciullo and Daniel J. Green of Epstein Becker Green have a new post on Trade Secrets & Employee Mobility that will be of interest to our readers: "The Pennsylvania Supreme Court Nixes a No-Poach Agreement Between Business Partners as Overbroad."
The following is an excerpt:
As reported here and here, in December 2019 and January 2020, the United States Department of Justice brought its first criminal charges against employers who entered into “naked” wage fixing agreements and no-poach (e.g., non-solicitation and/or non-hire ...
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