{"id":10002,"date":"2026-03-13T04:49:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/new-york-governor-vetoes-ban-on-non-compete-agreements\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T04:49:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:49:42","slug":"new-york-governor-vetoes-ban-on-non-compete-agreements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/new-york-governor-vetoes-ban-on-non-compete-agreements\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Governor Vetoes Ban on Non-Compete Agreements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"contentSummaryCollapse\" style=\"--intro-p-height: 10.3125rem;\">\n<div class=\"inner-collapse\">\n<p>On December 22, 2023, New York Governor Kathy Hochul vetoed a June 2023 bill that would have prohibited most non-compete agreements between employers and employees in New York State.\u00a0 The veto comes after Governor Hochul sought unsuccessfully to narrow the scope of the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Hochul has stated that she supports eliminating non-compete agreements for low- and middle-wage earners, but not for highly compensated workers.\u00a0 According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/us-news\/law\/new-york-gov-kathy-hochul-to-reject-ban-on-noncompete-agreements-3f0eb7d4?mod=Searchresults_pos1&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>, Governor Hochul proposed permitting individuals earning more than $250,000 per year to enter into non-compete agreements, but was unable to reach an agreement on limitations to the bill in negotiations with Democratic leaders in the New York legislature.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement provided with her veto, Governor Hochul explained that \u201cNew York has a highly competitive climate and is home to many different industries.\u00a0 These companies have legitimate interests that cannot be met with the legislation\u2019s one-size-fits-all approach.\u201d\u00a0 As a result of the veto, non-compete agreements will continue to be enforceable in New York to the extent that they are necessary to protect an employer\u2019s legitimate business interests.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As we have previously described, in January 2023 the Federal Trade Commission (\u201cFTC\u201d) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that, if implemented, would impose a nationwide ban on non-compete agreements.\u00a0 We expect the FTC to issue a final rule in 2024.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 22, 2023, New York Governor Kathy Hochul vetoed a June 2023 bill that would have prohibited most non-compete agreements between employers and employees in New York [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[718,524,6249,454,7562,326],"class_list":["post-10002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-agreements","tag-ban","tag-governor","tag-noncompete","tag-vetoes","tag-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}