To compete or not to compete: The Tipline for 10 January 2020

All the speakers at the Federal Trade Commission’s workshop yesterday on non-competes in the workplace agreed that, in certain instances, contractual provisions designed to prevent employees from moving to a competitor can be harmful. But the conference delved much deeper into the topic of deciphering right from wrong. The event sparked a day’s worth of nuanced debate over what, if any, actions the FTC should take and if the agency has the evidentiary support to back it up.