FTC labor_noncompeteDocket FTC-2023-0007

FTC-2023-0007 — Non-Compete Clause Ban

Demo run: regulations.gov, 200-row slice of FTC labor rulemaking. Diversity sample covering employment/economy policy area.

Total Comments200Filings audited

Coordinated Comments11Campaign comments

Coordinated Share6%Proportion of record

Active Campaigns5Templates discovered

Largest Campaign3Maximum cluster size

Discovered Campaigns

Showing 5 campaigns

3comments

“I'm submitting anonymously for fear of retaliation from my franchisor. I request the FTC include franchises in the ban on non-competes. The...”

Apr 23, 2023 - Apr 27, 2023

2comments

“Noncompetes exacerbate clinician shortages and access to care, as physicians are forced to decide between cutting back clinically or leavin...”

Apr 27, 2023

Methodology & Ingestion Disclosures

Data Sourcing

Comments are fetched directly from official federal APIs (regulations.gov v4 API or the FCC ECFS public portal). Raw comments are ingested into our Delta Lake Bronze schema, stripping HTML noise and validating submitter fields without discarding critical metadata.

Clustering Limits & Caveats

Semantic clustering groups comments based on high-dimensional text vectors. It uses a similarity threshold (0.92 cosine proximity) to guarantee that only text sharing core structural, political, and semantic boilerplate is linked. False positives are audited against strict quality benchmarks.