To prohibit agreements between employers that directly restrict the current or future employment of any employee.

United States115th CongressHR-5632House of Representatives
Updated: May 22, 2018

Summary

End Employer Collusion Act This bill makes it unlawful for any entity to enter into a restrictive employment agreement, or enforce or threaten to enforce a restrictive employment agreement. A "restrictive employment agreement" is any agreement between two or more employers that prohibits or restricts one employer from soliciting or hiring another employer's employees or former employees. The bill allows aggrieved individuals to bring a civil action for actual and punitive damages, plus attorney's fees, against an entity that enters into, or threatens to enforce, a restrictive employment agreement. The bill grants the Federal Trade Commission the power to enforce the requirements of this bill.

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S-2480: A bill to prohibit agreements between employers that directly restrict the current or future employment of any employee.

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

  1. Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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  2. Introduced in House

  3. Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.

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