The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a new decision that one Republican commissioner warns could incentivize diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices in companies that offer price ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I'm an antitrust expert and former FTC general counsel. On August 20, federal trial court judge Ada Brown in the Northern District of Texas ...

As previously covered on our HR Law Talk blog, the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) non-compete ban (FTC Rule or the Rule) is scheduled to take effect on September 4, 2024. Issued in April ...

According to Aaron Yeater, a financial and economic consultant for the FTC, almost all of the efficiencies Kroger and Albertsons have claimed will result from the merger are neither verifiable nor ...

Yet companies now face a ban from a different authority: the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which issued a rule banning noncompetes that will take effect on Sept. 4. This marks the first time in ...

The ruling prevents the FTC’s ban on noncompete agreements from taking effect on September 4th, though the agency could still appeal the decision. On Tuesday, US District Judge Ada Brown in ...

Paul Ainsworth, Jonathan Tuminaro, Ph.D. On May 7, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a Final Rule that renders invalid non-compete clauses in standard employment agreements.

The judge wrote in a previous ruling that the FTC lacks authority to issue a rule banning noncompete agreements and granted a preliminary injunction. But that previous ruling only postponed the ...

The FTC has a new rule saying creators can't buy fake followers on accounts they use to make money. The agency said it would crack down on false indicators of influence that could deceive consumers.

4 -- is now permanently on hold. In a ruling Tuesday, a federal judge in Texas upheld a challenge to the FTC's rule banning noncompetes, saying the government agency lacks the authority to put ...

A federal judge shot down the FTC’s rule banning noncompete agreements, a setback for the agency’s effort to free workers from restrictive employment contract terms. The commission said it is ...

In a ruling Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Ada Brown granted a motion for summary judgement filed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other plaintiffs, and rejected the FTC's own petition for a ...