The FTC’s proposed ban on non-competes was blocked in court and later withdrawn in 2025. However, the agency continues to scrutinize non-competes through enforcement, industry outreach, and supporting ...

The agency’s Republican chair said the commission seeks “education through enforcement” rather than the blanket ban pursued ...

FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson said the agency plans to address anticompetitive noncompete agreements. At the same time, he made ...

On January 27, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) held a workshop entitled “Moving Forward: Protecting Workers from Anticompetitive ...

Noncompetes are controversial, but so was an effort by the FTC to ban them. The Federal Trade Commission recently revealed that it was backing off a Biden administration ban on nearly every noncompete ...

Less than 24 hours after the Federal Trade Commission issued a final rule this week banning employers from using noncompete agreements in the United States, the US Chamber of Commerce and the Business ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has abandoned its defense of the rule proposed by the Biden Administration banning almost all employer-employee non-competes. As a result, the broad non-compete rule ...

The Federal Trade Commission narrowly voted on Tuesday to ban noncompete agreements in a move that could affect up to 30 million Americans -- one out of every five workers -- in jobs ranging from ...

The commission’s decision represents an effective end to what some described as an ambitious, if not complicated, rulemaking effort. Federal judges in Texas and Florida issued injunctions on the ...

The American Economic Liberties Project, a progressive think tank seeking to ingratiate itself with populists on the right, lashed out at Federal Trade Commissioner (FTC) Andrew Ferguson for ...

The Federal Trade Commission has officially ended its effort to enact a nationwide ban on non-compete agreements, marking the death of one of the Biden administration’s most ambitious labor ...