AssetHour Episode 12: Breaking Up with Non-Compete Agreements

Show Notes:

Short description:

In this episode, Janell Stanton from The Compliance Center and Wagner, Falconer & Judd, Ltd. takes over AssetHour to share a mini-workshop on breaking up with non-compete agreements. In this session, she helps you understand the new guidance on restrictive covenants and what it means for your company.

Janell Stanton is a Senior Associate at WFJ, the law firm that powers the Compliance Center. She focuses her practice on management-side HR and employment law, employment litigation, and corporate law. Janell advises management on strategies, methods, and policies designed to maintain compliance with federal, state, and local laws and minimize risk and exposure to litigation.

Discussed in this episode:

Who can employers enforce restrictive covenants against
When should an employer have an employee enter into a restrictive covenant
Where are restrictive covenants void difficult to enforce
FTC proposed rulemaking
Workforce Mobility Act of 2023
What should every restrictive covenant agreement include
How to ensure a higher likelihood of enforcement