What Employers Need to Know Now About the FTC’s Rule Banning Non-Competes

This webinar, presented by an experienced employment lawyer with extensive restrictive covenant expertise, will address the parameters of the FTC’s Rule, the current state of the litigation landscape seeking to enjoin the enforcement of the Rule, and more importantly, discuss practical strategies for employers to protect human capital, confidential information, customer relationships and other intellectual property, even in the absence of lawful non-compete agreements.

LearningS

• Understand scope, impact and effective date of the FTC’s Final Rule
• Discuss status of current efforts to enjoin the Rule’s implementation
  
• Explore practical strategies employers can adopt now to prepare for the possible nationwide ban of all non-competes
  
• Analyze alternative strategies for protecting human capital, intellectual property and customer relationships using effective and legally enforceable methods other than non-compete agreements.
  

Amy L. Bess

Shareholder of Vedder Price

Chair, Labor and Employment

Amy is the immediate past Chair of the Labor and Employment practice area at Vedder Price and currently serves as Chair of the group’s DC practice. She recently completed a three-year term of service on the firm’s Board of Directors. Ms. Bess currently serves as the managing shareholder for the firm’s D.C. office.

Her employment litigation experience includes the representation of employers before U.S. state and federal courts and administrative agencies, defending against claims of race, sex, disability and age discrimination; sexual harassment; whistleblower retaliation; restrictive-covenant disputes; wrongful termination; and wage and hour violations. She regularly counsels clients in all of these areas, drafts and negotiates employment and severance agreements, conducts on-site workplace investigations, presents training seminars and speaks to employer groups on avoiding workplace problems. Ms. Bess is an author and frequent speaker on a variety of employment topics, most notably on the impact of the #MeToo movement and anti-harassment laws and best practices that organizations should undertake to prevent and resolve harassment concerns, as well as the wide variety of workplace legal challenges presented by the global pandemic. 

THIS PROGRAM QUALIFIES FOR 1 HRCI AND SHRM CREDIT.