Noncompete clauses. Depending on your situation in the wastewater industry, you either love them or hate them. So you may have a visceral reaction one way or the other to hearing that the federal government wants to ban contract language that prevents workers or business sellers from moving on immediately to another pumping enterprise.
The Federal Trade Commission — which cites its mission as “protecting the public from deceptive or unfair business practices and from unfair methods of competition” — recently determined that noncompete clauses are an exploitive practice that “suppresses wages, hampers innovation and blocks entrepreneurs from starting new businesses.”Calling
