FLORIDA NON-COMPETE LAW: ANTITRUST ISSUES WHEN EMPLOYERS AGREE NOT TO SOLICT EACH OTHER’S EMPLOYEES

Many employers possess confidential information vital to generating profits. Employers routinely entrust employees with this information to facilitate business operations, but employees often leave their job after a few years to work for a competitor. When this happens, the employee takes the confidential information he or she learned to the next job. The employee might disclose this information to the new employer, and thereby detrimentally affect the former employer’s business. As a result, some employers competing in the same space have joined forces to combat disclosure of their confidential information by agreeing not to solicit each other’s employees, thereby ensuring the employees will remain at the same company. However, these agreements would likely constitute an unlawful restraint on trade under federal law it and may result in significant civil and criminal liability. The Mavrick Law Firm has extensive experience with non-compete agreements and related…

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