Beginning September 1, 2025, noncompetition agreements with dentists, professional and vocational licensed nurses, and licensed physician assistant (collectively “health care practitioners”) must include:

  • An option to buy-out of the noncompete in an amount not greater than the practitioner’s total annual salary and wages at the time of termination;
  • Temporal limitations not greater than one-year following

On November 16, 2022, the Department of Labor announced that it had recovered $1.2 million in back wages from four different home health care agencies on behalf of 599 home healthcare workers.  One of the responsible employers, Guardian Angels Care Services, Inc., owed $160,477 in overtime back wages for misclassifying its employees as independent