Non-compete agreements are under assault, courtesy of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which rolled out a proposed ban last month. Will non-disclosure agreements, or NDAs, be the next business tool to draw regulators' ire? That's a real possibility, according to some employment attorneys and regulatory experts, with the push potentially coming from state attorneys general rather than the federal government.
"From a regulatory perspective it's a logical extension of the restrictions … that the federal government is enacting," says Stephen Piepgrass, a partner at Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders. "State attorneys general are the ones who tend to push the regulatory envelope and look for new legal theories to bring consumer protection claims. This is very much in line with that."
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Hugo Guzman
Hugo Guzman is a reporter on ALM's in-house desk based in California, covering legal departments at disruptive technology companies, as well as labor and employment issues involving the NLRB, EEOC and other regulators. Connect with him at [email protected] today.
