On November 2, 2010, Georgia voters were asked to vote on Amendment One, a ballot referendum to amend the Georgia Constitution to grant the state legislature greater authority to regulate the reasonableness of contracts containing restrictive covenants, such as non-competes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Amendment One passed overwhelmingly, with approximately 67% of voters voting in favor of the referendum.\u00a0 The passage of Amendment One means that legislation significantly changing Georgia’s law on non-competes, which was previously passed by Georgia’s General Assembly, will go into effect.\u00a0 As discussed previously on this blog, the new law should make it easier for employers to enforce non-competes and other restrictive covenants against former employees, at least with respect to restrictive covenants in contracts that are signed from this point forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On November 2, 2010, Georgia voters were asked to vote on Amendment One, a ballot referendum to amend the Georgia Constitution to grant the state legislature greater authority to regulate the reasonableness of contracts containing restrictive covenants, such as non-competes.\u00a0 Amendment One passed overwhelmingly, with approximately 67% of voters voting in favor of the referendum.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mo_disable_npp":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[20,25,22],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n