Judge strikes down Biden administration ban on worker ‘noncompete’ agreements.....

[1srelluc]

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/20/judge-strikes-down-biden-administration-ban-on-worker-noncompete-agreements.html

A federal judge in Texas on Tuesday barred a U.S. Federal Trade Commission rule from taking effect that would ban agreements commonly signed by workers not to join their employers’ rivals or launch competing businesses.

U.S. District Judge Ada Brown in Dallas said the FTC, which enforces federal antitrust laws, does not have the authority to ban practices it deems unfair methods of competition by adopting broad rules.




Brown had temporarily blocked the rule in July while she considered a bid by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the country’s largest business lobby, and tax service firm Ryan to strike it down entirely. The rule was set to take effect Sept. 4.

Brown in her ruling said that even if the FTC had the power to adopt the rule, the agency had not justified banning virtually all noncompete agreements.

“The Commission’s lack of evidence as to why they chose to impose such a sweeping prohibition ... instead of targeting specific, harmful non-competes, renders the Rule arbitrary and capricious,” wrote Brown, an appointee of Republican former President Donald Trump.

FTC spokesperson Victoria Graham said the agency was disappointed with the ruling and is “seriously considering a potential appeal.”

Well now, it looks like killing Chevron is bearing fruit!

The question isn't whether non-competes are bad or not. The question is whether a Democrat controlled federal agency made a ruling way out of their purview for strictly political reasons. And I think we all know the answer to that one.

Don't like non-competes? Lobby your Congress-critter. Make them do their job.

 

[Picaro]

Workers have a right to work wherever they want in their industry. Those agreements are worthless.

No surprise right wing hypocrites are all for it though. They like to snivel about unions then out of the other sides of their mouths they cheer for this shit.

 

[1srelluc]

Workers have a right to work wherever they want in their industry. Those agreements are worthless.

No surprise right wing hypocrites are all for it though. They like to snivel about unions then out of the other sides of their mouths they cheer for this shit.

Why do you hate due process?

It means shit-all to me and nobody is cheering except for the fact that a .gov agency had their dick slapped for overreaching.

Congress needs to do the job you hired them for, not some nameless and unelected bureaucrat.

 

[MarcATL]

Why do you hate due process?

It means shit-all to me and nobody is cheering except for the fact that a .gov agency had their dick slapped for overreaching.

Congress needs to do the job you hired them for, not some nameless and unelected bureaucrat.

lol!!!

 

[rightwinger]

Conservative Judges never stand up for the rights of workers over their employers

There is money to be made

 

[rightwinger]

Why do you hate due process?

It means shit-all to me and nobody is cheering except for the fact that a .gov agency had their dick slapped for overreaching.

Congress needs to do the job you hired them for, not some nameless and unelected bureaucrat.

Imagine someone standing up for the rights of workers
How dare they?

 

[Polishprince]

Conservative Judges never stand up for the rights of workers over their employers

There is money to be made

This ruling has nothing to do with what the judge thinks about the "rights of workers" or the "rights of employers"

It was just the simple observation that the President of the US isn't a dictator and has no authority to make this law, no matter how tremendous it might be.

 

[rightwinger]

This ruling has nothing to do with what the judge thinks about the "rights of workers" or the "rights of employers"

It was just the simple observation that the President of the US isn't a dictator and has no authority to make this law, no matter how tremendous it might be.

It is just a case of Conservative Judges saying agencies can’t do their job when it comes to protecting the rights of workers

 

[1srelluc]

This ruling has nothing to do with what the judge thinks about the "rights of workers" or the "rights of employers"

It was just the simple observation that the President of the US isn't a dictator and has no authority to make this law, no matter how tremendous it might be.

Sigh, they are just low info sheeple....It's what the Marxist dems depend on.

 

[martybegan]

Imagine someone standing up for the rights of workers
How dare they?

Most people with non-compete clauses aren't "workers", they are professionals who create intellectual property or rely on relations in an industry to perform their jobs.

And don't these often include generous severance packages to cover the non-compete period?

 

[rightwinger]

Most people with non-compete clauses aren't "workers", they are professionals who create intellectual property or rely on relations in an industry to perform their jobs.

And don't these often include generous severance packages to cover the non-compete period?

Tough
These workers control their own brains and skills

If someone wants to pay them more than you do, you should not be able to stop them

Free Enterprise

 

[martybegan]

Tough
These workers control their own brains and skills

If someone wants to pay them more than you do, you should not be able to stop them

Free Enterprise

They usually don't have open employment, but set terms of contract.

The idea of these is to prevent pirating of intellectual property of companies. These are agreements gone into willingly, and again cover probably less than a 10th of a percent of the work force.