Becker's Healthcare March 27, 2023
The Federal Trade Commission’s proposed ban on noncompete clauses in employment contracts could allow healthcare workers to freely move between employers amid the ongoing workforce shortage, but hospitals are not as keen on the idea, according to Kaiser Health News.
If enacted, the FTC’s rule would end employment contracts that bar individuals from working for a competing employer or opening their own practice of similar scope in the same area after they move on, which hospitals worry would force them to pay more to keep the physicians and healthcare workers they do have from moving on.
It is something the American Hospital Association has called on the FTC to scrap altogether, claiming that “the proposed rule would profoundly transform...
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