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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 1180
March 19, 2026 - Introduced by Representatives
Bare
,
Udell
,
Anderson
,
Arney
,
Clancy
,
Fitzgerald
,
Miresse
,
Sheehan
and
Sinicki
, cosponsored by Senators
Carpenter
,
Larson
and
Roys
. Referred to Committee on Workforce Development, Labor, and Integrated Employment.
AB1180,1,3
1
An Act
to renumber and amend
103.465;
to amend
103.465 (title);
to create
2
103.465 (2) and (3) of the statutes;
relating to:
prohibitions on
3
postemployment nonsolicitation clauses in employment contracts.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, a covenant by an employee or agent not to compete with his or her employer or principal during the term of the employment or agency, or after the termination of that employment or agency, within a specified territory and during a specified time (covenant not to compete) is lawful and enforceable if the restrictions imposed are reasonably necessary for the protection of the employer or principal. Currently, any covenant not to compete that imposes an unreasonable restraint on an employee or agent is illegal, void, and unenforceable even as to any part of the covenant that would be a reasonable restraint on trade.
This bill provides that a provision in an employment contract that prohibits a former employee or agent from recruiting an employee or agent of an employer or principal to work for a different employer or principal after the termination of the former employee’s employment or agent’s agency is illegal, void, and unenforceable.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
AB1180,1
1
Section
1
.
103.465 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB1180,2,3
2
103.465
(title)
Restrictive covenants in employment contracts
;
3
prohibitions
.
AB1180,2
4
Section
2
.
103.465 of the statutes is renumbered 103.465 (1) and amended to
5
read:
AB1180,2,14
6
103.465
(1)
Covenants in employment contracts not to compete.
A
7
covenant by an assistant, servant
, employee,
or agent not to compete with his or her
8
employer or principal during the term of the employment or agency, or after the
9
termination of that employment or agency, within a specified territory and during a
10
specified time is lawful and enforceable only if the restrictions imposed are
11
reasonably necessary for the protection of the employer or principal. Any covenant,
12
described in this
section, imposing
subsection, that imposes
an unreasonable
13
restraint
on trade
is illegal, void
,
and unenforceable even as to any part of the
14
covenant or performance that would be a reasonable restraint
on trade
.
AB1180,3
15
Section
3
.
103.465 (2) and (3) of the statutes are created to read:
AB1180,2,20
16
103.465
(2)
Nonsolicitation provisions in employment contract after
17
termination of employment or agency prohibited.
(a)
In this subsection,
18
“solicitation” means recruiting an assistant, servant, employee, or agent of an
19
employer or principal to work for or provide agent services for a different employer
20
or principal.
AB1180,3,2
21
(b) Any provision in an employment contract that prohibits solicitation by a
22
former assistant, servant, employee, or agent after the termination of the
1
employment or agency of such assistant, servant, employee, or agent imposes an
2
unreasonable restraint on trade and is illegal, void, and unenforceable.
AB1180,3,11
3
(3)
Notice posted.
Each employer and principal shall post, in one or more
4
conspicuous places where notices to assistants, servants, employees, and agents are
5
customarily posted, and in a conspicuous place on the employer’s or principal’s
6
website if the employer or principal maintains a website, a notice in a form
7
approved by the department that explains that an employment contract provision
8
that prohibits a former assistant, servant, employee, or agent from recruiting an
9
assistant, servant, employee, or agent of the employer or principal after
10
termination of employment or agency is an unreasonable restraint on trade and is
11
illegal, void, and unenforceable.
AB1180,4
12
Section
4
. Initial applicability.
AB1180,3,15
13
(
1
)
Nonsolicitation provision in employment contracts.
This act first
14
applies to a nonsolicitation provision in an employment contract that is entered
15
into, extended, modified, or renewed on the effective date of this subsection.
AB1180,3,16
16
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