{"id":2061,"date":"2025-03-27T10:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/?p=2061"},"modified":"2025-03-27T10:57:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:57:27","slug":"virginia-amends-non-competes-for-low-wage-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/2025\/03\/27\/virginia-amends-non-competes-for-low-wage-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Amends Non-Competes for \u201cLow-Wage Employees\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Contract-NonCompete-Resized-01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1680\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Contract-NonCompete-Resized-01.png 800w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Contract-NonCompete-Resized-01-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Contract-NonCompete-Resized-01-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Virginia currently prohibits employers from entering into, enforcing, or threatening to enforce non-compete agreements against \u201clow-wage employees,\u201d who were previously defined under the state&#8217;s non-compete statute as individuals who earn less than the Commonwealth&#8217;s average weekly wage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Effective July 1, 2025, &nbsp;the new law amends the definition of \u201clow-wage employee\u201d to mean employees who are entitled to overtime compensation under federal law for any hours worked in excess of 40 hours in any one workweek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Littler:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.littler.com\/publication-press\/publication\/virginia-amends-threshold-compensation-level-ban-non-competes-low-wage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Virginia Amends Threshold Compensation Level for Ban on Non-Competes for \u201cLow-Wage Employees\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia currently prohibits employers from entering into, enforcing, or threatening to enforce non-compete agreements against \u201clow-wage employees,\u201d who were previously defined under the state&#8217;s non-compete statute as individuals who earn less than the Commonwealth&#8217;s average weekly wage. Effective July 1, 2025, &nbsp;the new law amends the definition of \u201clow-wage employee\u201d to mean employees who are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1003,"featured_media":1680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[139,140,42,138],"class_list":["post-2061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal","tag-compensation","tag-low-wage","tag-non-compete","tag-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions\/2062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}