Health Care Non-Compete Clauses - Will the Trump Administration and the FTC Doom These Provisions in Private Employment Contracts?

This intermediate webinar covers the following objectives regarding looming changes from the Biden Administration and the Federal Trade Commission, which may ban non-compete clauses in private contracts by healthcare employers, and how the incoming Trump administration may act:

• Basics of freedom of contract and employment at will;
• Basics of non-compete clauses;
• Unique protections under state law for employees subject to a non-compete clause;
• How the FTC acted under the Biden administration to ban them
• Possible outcome and non-applicability to the healthcare world
• An update on possible changes from the Trump administration
• Will an FTC ban on non-compete clauses split the healthcare world and raise costs?

For highly skilled medical practitioners and other workers in today’s healthcare world, employers often impose a non-compete clause on those practitioners and workers with whom they have an employment contract. While purporting to protect the legitimate interests of the employer without the detriment of the employee, coercive and overbroad non-compete clauses may entirely quash the future employment of a medical practitioner or health care worker who seeks a new job in the field.

State law protects the employee from over-broad non-compete clauses in several ways and even bans them in some professional contexts. However, the Biden administration had the Federal Trade Commission impose a federal rule banning such non-compete clauses as a matter of federal law. What is the current status of the courts? How will the new Trump administration act?

What are the possible outcomes for the healthcare world? Will an FTC ban split the healthcare world and increase costs? With the backdrop of these state laws and this possible federal law, this intermediate webinar includes a detailed analysis of how non-compete clauses are used in healthcare employment, and whether they will come to an end under the new Trump administration and the FTC.