Commissioners approved the historic regulation on the grounds that noncompetes stifle competition for workers. A legal challenge is all but certain.

The FTC’s three Democratic members were in favor of adopting the regulation, while its two Republican members were against it.

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“The FTC estimated that the ban would boost wages by between $400 billion and $488 billion over 10 years.”

Employers are required to tell people that existing noncompetes are void:

The new rule makes it illegal for employers to include the agreements in employment contracts and requires companies with active noncompete agreements to inform workers that they are void. The agency received more than 26,000 comments about the rule after it was proposed some 16 months ago. The rule will take effect after 120 days, although business groups have promised to challenge it in court, which could delay implementation.

New York Times coverage for comparison

    • themoonisacheese
      20·
      7 months ago

      I mean, this makes sense and is what a non-compete is for in the first place.

      • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
        113·
        7 months ago

        I mean, this makes sense and is what a non-compete is for in the first place.

        The issue has been that lately corporations have been using it on everyone, not just senior management, to control their movement, and not have to pay them as much, as there’s less competition from movement.

        Though personally I don’t think it should be used for anyone, as we need to allow as much competition as possible, so that we all can earn greater income through better salaries.

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        • SaltySalamander@fedia.io
          6·
          7 months ago

          It isn’t just corporations. I work for a less-than-10 employee company, and I had to sign a non-compete. Couple friends that I used to work with now work for another company that’s even smaller, and they had to sign one as well.

        • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          7 months ago

          Yeah, I, a lowly button pusher, had to sign a noncompete at my first real gig close to a decade ago. It was at least limited to working on shared clients at another employer, but it was still really annoying considering nothing I knew about that customer’s ops that would have been considered proprietary.