Beware the FTC’s noncompete model notice language

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The Federal Trade Commission’s new rule targeting employment noncompete agreements is set to come into effect on Sept. 4. George Reardon, an attorney with longtime experience in the staffing industry, writes in Staffing Industry Review magazine on the issue of the model language provided by the FTC for employers to use in notifying workers of the noncompete rule’s effects. The language overstates the meaning of the rule, and its “safe harbor” is anything but safe, Reardon writes.