The non -joint ban that was abandoned by FTC Trump: NPR

The Federal Trade Committee moves to the eviction of its ruling, which prohibits insufficient agreements, which reflects what was seen as a signature of the committee under President Biden.

Other than competitions are employment agreements that prevent workers from filling new jobs through a competing company or starting one on their own, and they are usually within a specific geographical area and the time frame after leaving their job.

The ban, which was defended by the former head of the Federal Trade Committee, Lin Khan, was completed in 2024, but it was not applied. In the wake of a lawsuit filed by the Dallas -based Ryan LLC, a federal judge in Texas found that FTC has probably exceeded its power to issue the ban and stop it at the country level.

Last fall, the Biden administration has appealed this ruling on the Court of Appeal in the Fifth Circuit. But in March, the Trump administration asked the court to stop for 120 days upon appeal. Government lawyers have been martyred in the change in the administration and the comments made by the head of the New Federal Trade Committee Andrew Ferguson that the agency should reconsider its defense of al -Qaeda.

Then in July, the Trump administration told the court that it needed more time. The court approved another 60 -day stand, which would have ended on September 8.

Late Friday afternoon, before the deadline, FTC announced that it voted 3-1 to refuse to appeal and take steps to evacuate the base.

Ferguson wrote in A. Joint With his colleague, Republican Commissioner, Melissa Hollyuk. “He excluded the laws of all fifty states, and actively explained hundreds of current laws across forty -six states.”

The opposition was voted by Rebecca Kelly Slier, which Trump tried to launch earlier this year. Now the only democratic of the committee, returned to its seat on Wednesday after a ruling from the Court of Appeal of the Capital Department.

30 million people are committed to non -participants

FTC estimated that about 30 million people, or one in every 5 American workers, from wage to the minimum executives, are obligated to unseen agreements.

The agency’s base, which the committee agreed along the party’s lines in April 2024, was almost all invalidated, all of which are not in place and its new ban except for rare conditions. Khan said that the workers will be able to follow new naval opportunities without fear of being transferred to the court by former employers, as this may lead to this. Increased wages, totaling about 300 billion dollars per year and An annual creation of 8,500 new companies.

From the business community, there was an immediate response. In a lawsuit, Ryan LLC argued that the non -joint embargo would cause an irreplaceable damage by enabling its employees to leave to compete, and may take with them the skills and valuable information acquired in the job. The American Chamber of Commerce, which joined Ryan’s suit, argued that the base was an illegal transgression of the FTC power and warned that it would harm the economy.

Ferguson, one of the FTC’s Republican Commissioner at the time, voted against the base, on the pretext that FTC lacks the authority to issue a ban on the country’s level of business for centuries. in OppositionThe ban called “to the extent of the extraordinary assertion of power in the history of the committee” and the violation of the constitution.

However, since the FTC chair became during the Trump era, Ferguson has made it clear that he is not a fan of unseen agreements.

He wrote in his statement, which was issued on Friday: “The unseen agreements can be harmful,” he wrote in his statement on Friday. “They can be, sometimes, they are hurting the effect of workers’ ability to gain a livelihood.”

Earlier this year, Ferguson Fox Business told that one of his higher priorities is, instead of the comprehensive ban, to send the FTC perpetrators abroad looking for the absence of unprecedented agreements and the unnoticed consent of the Sherman Law, Law 1890 prohibits activities that restrict competition in the market.

On Thursday, FTC presented an example of the type of implementation you are now planning to follow it. The committee announced that it had ordered The largest pet burning work in the country To stop enforcing non -competitions against nearly 1,800 employees.

While recognizing this type of application is important, Slaughter says it is not a substitute for a country level.

“Nothing does to help the person working in the hair salon in Minnesota, the engineer in Florida, or a fast food worker in Washington,” she says. “These people also deserve protection.”

The FTC also called on the public to provide information to help the committee “to understand the best scope of the employer’s agreements, the impacts of the employer, in addition to gathering information to inform the possible future enforcement procedures,” according to a press statement.

Slaughter notes that during the process of setting the rules, FTC received 26,000 general comments on non -competitors, and almost completely supported the country level.

The architect of the non -joint base warns that the enforcement strategy will fail

Elizabeth Wilkins, the former Chief of Staff Khan and one of the uninterrupted al -Qaeda base engineers in the Federal Trade Committee, predicts the Ferguson plan to pursue the unending using the agent’s executives insufficient.

“FTC has a similar 1,400 police officers as the entire economy-not only workers, not only labor markets, but everything,” says Wilkins, who is now president and executive director of the Roosevelt Institute.

Wilkins notes that even in the states that have approved their own laws that make non -implementable technology agreements, companies still use.

“You find them often as they do in the states that are implemented, and this means that workers do not know their rights,” says Wilkins. “The clear and simple prohibition on non -competitions is, in my opinion, the only way to protect workers.”

One of the points in a real estate company is not a difficult choice

In Grand Junction, Colorado, Rebecca Denton signed a non -subscriber when she held a transactions coordinator with a real estate company in 2019.

In finding itself exhausted while increasing the era of the epidemic in housing sales, she wanted to leave her function, which included dealing with all papers for closure. But there was a problem. Because of her lack of, she knew that she would not be able to do a similar job in a three -year area.

“You feel besieged,” says Denton. “Take a ball and a chain.”

Denton, which was 52 at the time, the weight of her options. She decided what she considered the least two females: instead of staying in a job she was running on the ground with her resignation for 16 hours. I took an disturbed work for a year, and moved away from the work line. She is fortunate because she has the financial resources to take this choice, and she is luxury that many of her real estate friends do not have it.

In 2022, Colorado enacted a law that greatly limits the useless use. Denton was happy and says she knew people who could leave their jobs as a result. It hopes that the law will encourage employers to find other ways to keep workers.

“If you are a good company, you pay your employees on a scale or better, and you are treating them well, you do not have the fear of leaving them,” says Denton. “You don’t need nothing because they will stay happily there.”