An attorney specializing in employment law discusses artificial intelligence and noncompetes.
A proposed advanced by the Federal Trade Commission was blocked by a federal court in Texas, leaving largely to the states. And those regulations vary widely among the 50 states. Christopher S. Mayer, J.D., an employment law specialist with the firm , explains more.
Medical Economics: How would you describe the current atmosphere around federal enforcement, and particularly noncompetes for physicians and other clinicians?
Christopher S. Mayer, J.D.: We saw the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) a few years back try to aggressively regulate noncompetes. And there were a lot of questions on whether the FTC even had any jurisdiction over that. I personally believe they did not have jurisdiction over that, but they were trying to assert their jurisdiction broadly. And that was shot down in Texas. That rule that they had, that the FTC had adopted was shot down by a Texas court, enjoined, so it's no longer in effect. Where we are right now, at the federal level, noncompetes really aren't regulated.When I deal with or look at noncompetes, I'm primarily concerned with state law, because that's what matters so and in every state it's completely different. I mean, so you have to where employers who have multistate functions or practices run into trouble is when they have one noncompete agreement for all employees, and they try to use it in every state, and that just doesn't work. I mean,...
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