August 15, 2019
Washington state's attorney general is forging ahead with a campaign against no-poach provisions in franchise agreements, cutting deals last week with four more chains to eliminate the practice, but with few courts weighing in so far, it is unclear which legal standard for judging the provisions will prevail.
November 13, 2018
A former Cinnabon worker can move forward with a proposed antitrust class action over the company's allegedly anticompetitive "no-poaching" agreements keeping franchises from hiring away the employees of their peers, but a Washington state federal judge signaled a tough road ahead by imposing a challenging burden of proof.