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compete clause cannot itself prevent an employee from breaching their employment contract, but it does provide an employer with legally enforceable rights against the employee.
Non-solicitation clauses that are clear, carefully drafted, and suitably retrained in temporal and spatial terms, are often enforceable.
Maryland courts have enforced non-disclosure, non-solicitation and confidentiality agreements to protect confidential or trade secret information and have analyzed such agreements under the same rubric as non-competes (see Lofton v.
By Janet A. In California, North Dakota, the District of Columbia, and Oklahoma, non-competes are either entirely or largely unenforceable as against public policy. Other states, including Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Washington, have banned non-compete agreements for low-wage workers.
Passed in January 2021, and effective as of March 2021, Washington D.C. passed the Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Amendment Act of 2020, one of the broadest in the country. The new law bans non-compete clauses for the majority of employees and applies both during and after a worker's employment.
In the meantime, D.C. employers are not prohibited from entering into or enforcing noncompete agreements with new or existing employees. Absent an intervening change in the legislation's text, the act will spare agreements containing noncompete provisions that have been entered into before the new applicability date.
As we previously reported, earlier this year the District of Columbia enacted The Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Amendment Act (the Act), which creates the broadest non-compete ban in the country.
In the meantime, D.C. employers are not prohibited from entering into or enforcing noncompete agreements with new or existing employees. Absent an intervening change in the legislation's text, the act will spare agreements containing noncompete provisions that have been entered into before the new applicability date.
In passing the Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Amendment Act of 2020, Washington, D.C., joins California and a handful of other states in prohibiting virtually all non-competes.
The District of Columbia's ban on non-compete agreements is delayed again. As we previously reported, the DC Government enacted The Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Amendment Act (the Act) in January 2021, which creates one of the most comprehensive non-compete bans in the country.