White House Continues Attack on Non-Compete Agreements
“State Call to Action on Non-Compete Agreements” is the White House’s latest in a series of Executive Branch missives decrying the purported misuse of non-competition agreements by employers across the country, according to an article posted on the website of Jackson Lewis P.C.
Authors Clifford R. Atlas, David M. Walsh and Erik J. Winton write that the latest call to action repeats some of the Administration’s earlier conclusions on the subject: “including the view that use of non-compete agreements artificially restrict competition, restrict worker mobility, create barriers to changing jobs and weaken employees’ bargaining power. The stated goal of the White House issuances on non-competes is to address wage stagnation and boost the economy.”
“Many attorneys who represent companies in restrictive covenant litigation find the Administration’s conclusions and stated concerns about the evils of non-compete restrictions puzzling,” they write.
Read the article from Jackson Lewis.
