For the past several years, non-compete agreements have been under attack by legislatures, agencies and regulators throughout the country. In 2018, Massachusetts led a renewed charge by state legislatures to reign in the use of non-compete agreements in the workforce, passing a law that significantly limited the ability of employers to bind employees to non-compete restrictions in the state. In 2019, Washington state followed suit, enacting a similar law restricting the use of non-compete agreements for Washington employees (this year, Washington state further amended the earlier law, imposing added restrictions on the use of non-compete covenants).