Federal Trade Commissioner Rohit Chopra has emerged as a new ally to competition advocates pushing for increased use of antitrust laws to address worker issues.
Chopra, a Democrat, wants the FTC to write rules defining when noncompete agreements for employees are permissible. He raised the issue Sept. 6 in comments filed ahead of a wide-ranging series of FTC policy hearings.
Chopra’s comments came a day after four House Democrats released a report recommending that noncompete agreements be banned. The recommendation was part of a broad policy agenda about workers that called for stronger employment-based antitrust enforcement and other actions to ...