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o-hire agreements have quietly lived in vendor and service contracts for years.
The FTC has now made clear that they are an active antitrust enforcement target.
TL
;DR: The Federal Trade Commission entered a consent order prohibiting a company from using no-hire agreements in customer contracts. The FTC treated those provisions as unlawful restraints on competition for labor and required immediate cessation, affirmative notice to employees and customers, and long-term compliance