One key element for an enforceable non-compete in South Carolina is the existence of “valuable consideration.” While consideration is just one required element among several–including reasonable geographic scope, reasonable temporal/time limits of... read more
On Friday, October 18, 2024, we learned that the FTC has appealed the federal judge’s non-compete injunction. Recall that the Federal Trade Commission had issued a rule in April 2024 that would ban non-compete agreements across the entire nation. [Read More: FTC... read more
Yesterday, a federal judge in Texas struck down the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) rule that banned non-compete agreements across the nation. You can read the judge’s full order here. The rule was set to go into effect on September 4, 2024, but as of... read more
By now, regular readers of this Premiere South Carolina Employment Law Blog™ know that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a rule in April 2024 banning non-compete agreements. The rule is still set to take effect on September 4, 2024. But of course, since... read more
On Wednesday, July 3, 2024, the federal district court judge in Texas issued her ruling on the FTC’s rule to ban non-competes. At issue before the court was the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction, which would have placed the non-compete ban on... read more
Back in May 2024, the federal court judge assigned to the FTC’s non-compete ban case indicated that she would have a hearing on motion for a preliminary injunction by June 17. (I wrote about the FTC’s opposition to that motion here.) However, late last... read more