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28 Jun 2014, 5:53 am by Massachusetts Employment Law Letter
Governor Deval Patrick signed a law on June 26 that will raise the state’s minimum wage from its current $8 per hour to $11 an hour by 2017, the highest statewide minimum wage rate in the country and a full 50 percent higher than the current federal rate of $7.25 per hour. [read post]
11 Jun 2014, 1:25 pm by Dawn Mertineit
As we have previously reported, in April of this year, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick introduced a sweeping economic growth bill (HB4045) that, if passed, would ban employee non-competes in the Commonwealth. [read post]
6 Jun 2014, 9:00 am by Jason M. Knott
” Chris Cassidy of the Boston Herald writes that the Massachusetts House Speaker, Robert DeLeo, and the state’s governor, Deval Patrick, are clashing over noncompete agreements. [read post]
23 May 2014, 5:27 am by Tom Lynch
Fresh off Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick's donnybrook with Zogenix, maker of Zohydro ER, District Attorneys from Orange and Santa Clara Counties in California have filed a consumer protection lawsuit against five opioid manufacturers, charging they conducted a more than decade-long massive and deceptive marketing campaign to mislead doctors about the risks of long-term use of the drugs and to encourage... [read post]
19 May 2014, 6:07 pm
Of course this must have been a bit embarrassing, given that Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Bill Cosby were also at the graduation. [read post]
29 Apr 2014, 9:00 am by P. Andrew Torrez
Deval Patrick (D), went on record as saying that the administration supports the “outright elimination of enforceability” of noncompetes in Massachusetts in a story broken by Scott Kirsner of the Boston Globe. [read post]
28 Apr 2014, 5:13 pm by Dorsey
In Massachusetts, Governor Deval Patrick is currently pushing that state’s legislature to pass a bill to prohibit all employee non-compete agreements that are broader than a  restriction on  working with former customers, save for a few exceptions, like agreements made in connection with the sale of a business. [read post]
28 Apr 2014, 5:13 pm by Dorsey
In Massachusetts, Governor Deval Patrick is currently pushing that state’s legislature to pass a bill to prohibit all employee non-compete agreements that are broader than a  restriction on  working with former customers, save for a few exceptions, like agreements made in connection with the sale of a business. [read post]
28 Apr 2014, 1:02 pm by Dawn Mertineit
As we discussed on the blog not too long ago, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick recently introduced legislation that would eliminate virtually all employee non-compete agreements, with a few minor exceptions. [read post]
27 Apr 2014, 9:00 am by William A. Schreiner, Jr.
  Speaking of non-competes, another columnist in the Boston Globe – which has extensively covered Governor Deval Patrick’s proposal to ban non-competes – has come out in support of that ban. [read post]
18 Apr 2014, 12:17 pm by Katherine Perrelli
Weibust Last week, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick proposed sweeping legislation that would eliminate employee non-compete agreements in Massachusetts. [read post]
17 Apr 2014, 8:49 am by Katherine Perrelli
By Katherine Perrelli, Dawn Mertineit, and Erik Weibust As we reported last week, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has proposed sweeping legislation that would eliminate employee non-compete agreements in Massachusetts. [read post]
17 Apr 2014, 7:17 am by Joy Waltemath
On Thursday, April 10, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced that he has filed legislation to eliminate noncompetition agreements and adopt the Uniform Trade Secrets Act with the aim of promoting innovation, job creation, and the growth of companies to scale. [read post]
17 Apr 2014, 12:30 am by Jon Gelman
DEVAL PATRICK, CIVIL ACTION NO. 14-11689-RWZ, US District Court District of MA, Decided April 15, 2014.Click here to read the complete opinion.Related articles:Addiction Specialists Wary of New Painkiller - Workers ...Nov 17, 2013Addiction experts protested loudly when the Food and Drug Administration approved a powerful new opioid painkiller last month, saying that it would set off a wave of abuse much as OxyContin did when it first… [read post]
11 Apr 2014, 6:26 am by Donna Ballman
This week, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced an economic development package that included a plan to ban noncompetes. [read post]