White House Issues A Call To Arms With Respect To Non-Competes

On May 5, 2016, the White House issued a report largely piggybacking on a recent U.S. Treasury Department study, on which we previously posted, with a primary focus on the purported misuse and negative impacts of non-compete agreements.  The White House report reiterated much of what the Treasury Department covered its March 31, 2016 study, and focused on how the White House will apparently begin to "facilitate discussion on non-compete agreements and their consequences."

Indeed, on the same day that the White House issued its report, Vice President Joe Biden posted a lengthy message on his Facebook page, linking to a White House survey that encourages employees to share with the administration "how non-competes agreements or wage collusion are holding you down."  The Vice President expressed concern in his post about "the improper use of non-compete agreements, where companies make workers promise when they are hired that if they leave the company, they can't