A number of states have enacted restrictions on non-competes in recent years. For example, in 2018 Massachusetts passed its Noncompetition Agreement Act, which prohibited certain non-compete agreements. But only three states — California, North Dakota and Oklahoma — have imposed a total ban.
Washington, D.C. recently became the next jurisdiction to impose a broad ban on non-competes. Under the Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Amendment Act (the Act), non-compete and anti-moonlighting agreements entered into with D.C. employees after this law takes effect will be void and unenforceable.