Tag: Texas

News
December 5, 2024
As most businesses were rushing to meet the January 1, 2025, deadline to submit Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), a federal court in Texas issued a major ruling on December 3, 2024. The court temporarily stopped the U.S. government from enforcing the BOI reporting requirements nationwide. The lawsuit, filed by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), argued that the CTA might be unconstitutional. The court agreed, finding that the law likely exceeds Congress’s authority to regulate commerce or pass laws necessary for tax collection.
News
August 27, 2024
A recent ruling by a Texas federal judge has blocked the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) attempt to ban non-compete clauses for most workers. On August 20, 2024, the judge decided that the FTC had exceeded its legal authority by trying to implement a rule prohibiting non-compete agreements, which was set to take effect in September. As a result, the FTC cannot enforce this rule nationwide, allowing employers to continue using non-competes, though they must still comply with state and local laws.
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July 30, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has abandoned its proposed joint employer rules, which—as we’ve said before—would have made it easier for employees to argue that one or more corporate entities were the employer of record for an employee. From the start, the NLRB’s proposed rule was met with challenges in federal district court in Texas, which struck down the rule for reasons we need not concern ourselves with here. But, just recently, the NLRB has decided to drop its appeal of the Texas federal court’s ruling, effectively meaning that the NLRB’s joint-employer rules remain struck down.