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Committee hears testimony on banning noncompetes; health-care groups urge broad protections
Summary
The House Committee on General & Housing heard testimony April 15 on S.230 and whether to ban noncompete agreements. Labor advocates and the Vermont Medical Society urged limits, especially for health-care workers, citing patient access, nondisparagement and out-of-state staffing concerns. A markup is scheduled for the next day.
The House Committee on General & Housing on April 15 took testimony on S.230, a fair-employment bill that includes a possible prohibition on noncompete agreements for workers. Committee Chair Representative Mark Mahalley opened the meeting, described a short legislative-council draft on the committee website and introduced witnesses.
David Mickenberg, a lobbyist for Working Vermont, told the committee he supports banning noncompetes and described recent federal activity on the issue. "Noncompetes ... constrain people's ability to invest economically in their lives," Mickenberg said, and he urged the committee to move beyond narrow dollar-based thresholds used in some tests. He described a…
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