Noncompete Update

Hayes Medical Staffing has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against former employees Amy Eichelberg, Allison Patierno, and Scott Simon, as well as their new employer, Jobot LLC. The complaint (attached below) contains claims for breach of contract, misappropriation of trade secrets,

By Bill Josey, Editor, Staffing Legal News - 11 Jan 2023 Background On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission published a proposed regulation flatly banning all employee noncompete agreements, defined as any agreement that expressly or functionally “prevents the worker from seeking or accepting employment with a person, or

In October I wrote about a temp transfer case in Ohio in which Surge Staffing alleged that a former employee, working with a competitor, pulled off a switch of 10 temps on assignment to the competitor's payroll, presumably with the client's cooperation.

Non-compete case provides insights into Big Law recruiting.