noncompete agreements

Check Call: Hope for a ban on noncompetes heads to court

In this edition: The dream that may or may not come true under the FTC’s new rule, and TFI International wants heavier freight. 

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Last Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission dropped the mother of all rules. The agency banned noncompetes. The ban was going to remove any existing noncompete and bar new ones provided that employee wasn’t a senior executive or higher. The rule was to go into effect 120 days after it was published in the Federal Register, which normally takes about three...

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Check Call: Let’s get ready to rumble

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Inside this edition: FTC proposes to ban noncompetes; the nonshortage shortage of medicine; and Estes moves to hand down the family business. 

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The time has arrived. The Federal Trade Commission has proposed a rule...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/check-call-the-rise-of-nearshoring

TQL’s noncompete hurts ex-employee’s job prospects, lawsuit claims

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Wednesday is Jacob Patterson’s last day at PBJ Express, a small trucking firm in Joplin, Missouri, where he has worked for the past 15 months. He submitted his resignation two weeks ago after discovering that his former employer, Cincinnati-based Total Quality Logistics, intended to file a motion seeking to add PBJ as a defendant in an ongoing lawsuit against him over allegations he violated the terms of his noncompete agreement after leaving the United States’ second-largest freight brokerage...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/tqls-noncompete-hurts-ex-employees-job-prospects-lawsuit-claims

Don’t compete with noncompetes

By Omar Singh, president and founder, Surge Transportation

As we navigate our way through the Great Resignation, which is happening at the same time our nation is facing supply chain challenges of all kinds and thus creating intense competition for talent, I thought it would be worth taking a moment to consider competing for talented logisticians in a fair and reasonable way. 

As an employer, I frequently encounter the issue of restrictive agreements when interviewing prospective candidates and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/dont-compete-with-noncompetes