Effective July 1st 2007, broadcast industry employers in Connecticut can no longer bind their non-management or non-sales employees to right to match or non-compete provisions. The law applies to broadcast employment contracts created, renewed, or extended on or after July 1, 2007.
The new law prohibits broadcast employers from including in their employment contracts with 
all employees, except management or sales employees, any provisions that require the employee to “refrain from obtaining employment in a specified geographical area for a specified period of time after termination of employment with that broadcast employer.”
In addition, the new law prohibits employment contract provisions that require
“broadcast employees,” (which are all of a broadcaster’s employees except for management or sales employees), to disclose to their broadcast employer any offers of employment received from another broadcast industry employer following the expiration of their contracts, or to agree to a provision giving their current broadcast industry employer the right to renew their contract upon the same terms and conditions offered by a prospective employer.
This new law applies to “broadcast industry employers,” as well as to “associated broadcast entities,” which are entities or subcontractors that provide reporting services, such as weather, sports, traffic, or other reports for broadcast or cablecast. The new law is inapplicable to cable stations and networks because they are not “broadcast industry employers” as defined by this law.
For the text of the new law, click here.
