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NONCOMPETE NEWS ALERT: APPLYING THE “JANITOR RULE,” A GEORGIA COURT STRIKES DOWN “IN ANY CAPACITY” NON-COMPETE

December 27, 2022 | Ford Harrison Filed Under: Restrictive Covenants (GA)

Prior to the enactment of Georgia’s Restrictive Covenant Act (“RCA”) in May 2011, Georgia courts uniformly held void and unenforceable “in any capacity” non-compete provisions in the employer-employee context. “In any capacity” non-competes are those provisions that prohibit an employee from working for a competitor in any capacity and not limited to the types of duties that the employee performed for his current employer. And under Georgia’s prior common law, a court was not allowed to revise an otherwise void and unenforceable provision to render it enforceable.

Atlanta Amends Anti-Discrimination Ordinance to Include Protections for Gender Expression and Criminal Histories

November 11, 2022 | Littler Filed Under: Human Resources (GA)

Littler

The City Council of Atlanta, Georgia recently passed an ordinance that amends its existing anti-discrimination law to include protection on the basis of “criminal history status” as well as “gender expression.”  The ordinance is effective immediately.

With regard to gender expression, the law simply amends existing law to include

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Non-Compete News: Georgia Court Holds Non-compete and Non-solicit of Employee Provisions With Missing Territory Unenforceable and Void

July 12, 2022 | Ford Harrison Filed Under: Restrictive Covenants (GA)

Earlier this year, in Steuer v. Tomaras, et al., Georgia’s Statewide Business Court again refused to modify certain restrictive covenants that were missing a territory. Dr. Steuer, a former partner of the defendant doctors, sought to enforce restrictive covenants. The doctor defendants sought to declare the non-compete and non-solicit provisions contained in the agreements unenforceable.

New Georgia Employment Laws Change Definition of Employment, Restrict Local Laws Regulating Work Hours

May 16, 2022 | Jackson Lewis Filed Under: Human Resources (GA)

Jackson Lewis

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has signed into law two measures addressing the employment relationship. The first, Act 809 (H.B. 389), alters the definition of employment for purposes of unemployment benefits.

3 Ga. Bills That Died In The Latest Legislative Session

April 18, 2022 | Ford Harrison Filed Under: Human Resources (GA)

Atlanta Partner, Rick Warren, was featured in the Law360 Pulse article, “3 Ga. Bills That Died In The Legislative Session.”

In the article, Rick discusses why Georgia legislators rejected state bill H.B. 1389 or the “Georgia Safe Workplaces Act,” in the last legislative session. 

Non-Compete News: Georgia Appeals Court Clarifies What Constitutes Appropriate Definition of Territory In Non-Compete Under RCA

April 4, 2022 | Ford Harrison Filed Under: Restrictive Covenants (GA)

Last month, in American Plumbing Professionals, Inc. v. ServeStar, LLC, Georgia’s Court of Appeals reversed a trial court’s determination that a non-compete provision was unenforceable and void because its territory was too broad. The non-compete at issue defined the geographic restriction as “the territory where Employee provided services on behalf of [the employer] during the last twelve months of his or her employment,” which extended “throughout those parts of the United States of America where [the employer] transacts business.” 

Non-Compete News: Federal Court in Georgia Finds Customer Contact Information May Be a Trade Secret, Interprets Customer and Employee Non-Solicit Provisions under Georgia’s Restrictive Covenants Act

February 2, 2022 | Ford Harrison Filed Under: Restrictive Covenants (GA)

In Tanium v. Yago et al., the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia recently reminded us of a few things: (1) customer contact information can constitute a trade secret; (2) the Georgia Restrictive Covenant Act (“RCA”) provides a court greater freedom to modify an otherwise overbroad restriction; (3) a non-solicit of employees provision may be liberally enforced; and (4) bad acts performed by an employee prior to his departure from a company influence how a court rules.

GA District Court’s Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate Injunction Upheld by Eleventh Circuit – Should Federal Contractors Now Worry About ETS?

December 22, 2021 | Nexsen Pruet Filed Under: Human Resources (GA)

On December 7, 2021, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia issued a preliminary nationwide injunction enjoining the enforcement of Executive Order 14042’s federal contractor vaccine mandate.  The government promptly appealed the order to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and also moved to stay the injunction.

Georgia Courts Cannot Toll Duration of Noncompete Agreement, Even Against Willful Violator

October 29, 2021 | Ogletree Deakins Filed Under: Human Resources (GA)

Since the passage of the Georgia Restrictive Covenants Act (O.C.G.A. § 13-8-50 et seq.) in May 2011, there has been some level of uncertainty regarding the extent to which a court may “blue pencil” or modify an otherwise unenforceable covenant, including whether a court may extend the restrictions period of

Non-Compete News: Georgia Courts Cannot Extend Non-Compete Beyond Its Terms

October 26, 2021 | Ford Harrison Filed Under: Restrictive Covenants (GA)

The more things change, the more they stay the same.  That adage is apparent in Georgia’s non-compete law, which had a major overhaul in May 2011, when Georgia’s Restrictive Covenant Act (RCA) became effective. The RCA applies to restrictive covenant agreements entered into after May 2011, whereas Georgia’s well-developed common law applies to agreements entered into prior to that date. Nevertheless, prior common law themes play out time and again in Georgia courts’ interpretation of the RCA. One such theme is that a court is not allowed to extend a non-compete provision beyond the terms drafted in the agreement.

Georgia 2021: Unemployment Benefit Developments

September 2, 2021 | Jackson Lewis Filed Under: Human Resources (GA)

Jackson Lewis

Georgia employers may be experiencing some whiplash from the latest updates to the state’s unemployment and partial unemployment rules and regulations in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Atlanta Mayor Issues Indoor Mask Mandate Due to CDC Guidance and Increase in COVID-19 Cases

August 5, 2021 | Ogletree Deakins Filed Under: Human Resources (GA)

On July 28, 2021, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms issued an indoor mask mandate via executive order that requires “all persons in an entity or a public place [to] wear a facial covering or mask over the mouth and nose at all times when indoors.”

Tagged With: Atlanta

Non-Compete News: Restrictive Covenant Act Case Decided by Georgia State-Wide Business Court

July 6, 2021 | Ford Harrison Filed Under: Human Resources (GA)

In May 2011, Georgia’s Restrictive Covenant Act (OCGA 13-8-50 et seq.) (“RCA”) became effective and applied to all agreements executed on or after May 11, 2011.

New Georgia Decision Clarifies Scope of Computer Trespass Statute

June 25, 2021 | Jackson Lewis Filed Under: Human Resources (GA)

Jackson Lewis

Just as the United States Supreme Court recently limited the reach of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) in Van Buren v. United States, the Georgia Supreme Court has now reined in the Georgia state law counterpart to the CFAA.

Georgia Prohibits COVID-19 ‘Vaccine Passports’ for Public Employers, Also Limiting Private Employers

June 7, 2021 | Jackson Lewis Filed Under: Human Resources (GA)

Jackson Lewis

While many states have issued orders prohibiting inquiries about an individual’s COVID-19 vaccination status, Georgia has become the first to restrict public employers from requiring proof of a COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment.

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