{"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":"
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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’s non-compete statute as individuals who earn less than the Commonwealth’s average weekly wage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Effective July 1, 2025,  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

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Virginia Amends Threshold Compensation Level for Ban on Non-Competes for \u201cLow-Wage Employees\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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’s non-compete statute as individuals who earn less than the Commonwealth’s average weekly wage. Effective July 1, 2025,  the new law amends the definition of \u201clow-wage employee\u201d to mean employees who are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1003,"featured_media":1680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"common","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","header_top_description":"","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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t