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A 3-1 majority of the Federal Trade Commission agreed to dismiss the agency’s appeals in two separate legal challenges of its 2024 ban on noncompete agreements in employment contracts, FTC confirmed in a press release Friday.

In a statement, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said the ban’s “illegality was patently obvious ” and “would never survive judicial review,” adding that it constituted a waste of the agency’s funding. Ferguson was one of two Republican commissioners who voted against the FTC’s ban when it was initially up for approval.

FTC will continue enforcement efforts against unlawful noncompetes, Ferguson said, adding that the commission invited the public to submit information

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