{"id":2279,"date":"2025-09-26T14:53:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2025-09-26T14:52:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:52:31","slug":"ftc-shifts-strategy-on-noncompetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/2025\/09\/26\/ftc-shifts-strategy-on-noncompetes\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC Shifts Strategy on Noncompetes"},"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>On September 5, 2025, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) confirmed that it is abandoning a Biden-era rule that, had it taken effect, would have barred the use of virtually all noncompete agreements across the country. \u00a0While that long-expected announcement was welcome news to the business community, it does not necessarily mean that the increased scrutiny of noncompete agreements that has arisen over the past several years is anywhere close to receding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Reed Smith LLP:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.employmentlawwatch.com\/2025\/09\/articles\/employment-us\/ftcs-abandonment-of-the-noncompete-rule-does-not-necessarily-spell-end-of-scrutiny-for-u-s-businesses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FTC\u2019s Abandonment of the Noncompete Rule Does Not Necessarily Spell End of Scrutiny for U.S. Businesses<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 5, 2025, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) confirmed that it is abandoning a Biden-era rule that, had it taken effect, would have barred the use of virtually all noncompete agreements across the country. \u00a0While that long-expected announcement was welcome news to the business community, it does not necessarily mean that the increased [&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":[273,41,274],"class_list":["post-2279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal","tag-abandon","tag-ftc","tag-noncompete"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279","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=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2281,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions\/2281"}],"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=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}