05/10/2024 | News release | Distributed by Public on 05/10/2024 04:17
Last week, the European Commission (Commission) published a new competition policy brief dealing with Antitrust in Labour Markets with a focus on no-poach agreements and wage fixing. This comes moments after the US regulator (FTC) banned so-called non-compete agreements in employment contracts safe few exceptions for executive positions. As a reminder, we covered the interplay between employment and competition law in our newsletter in June 2023
Full version of the Commission's Competition Policy Brief is available here.
Key takeaways:
As mentioned, in April 2024 the US FTC banned non-compete agreements in the US. In principle, this implies that all new post-termination non-compete clauses between employers and employees are generally prohibited, with a few specific exceptions.