tl;dr They're planning to replace overly-broad, vague non-compete agreements with the more focused Uniform Trade Secret Act. [1] This should get rid of the rid

tl;dr They're planning to replace overly-broad, vague non-compete agreements with the more focused Uniform Trade Secret Act. [1] This should get rid of the ridiculous abuses of non-competes that we've seen here in Massachusetts. For example: Just before July 4th [2011], Angela, a 26 year-old Boston University alumna, was laid off from her job as a software trainer. She had only been at the company for two weeks... Angela had signed a non-compete contract with an old employer — a job she'd left voluntarily [in] October [2010] — and the employer... was now threatening to sue over it...She'd signed the non-compete in 2007 without giving its implications much thought. But it prevented her from working for any other company that developed software for the staffing or recruiting industry for a year after she left... [2] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Trade_Secrets_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Trade_Secrets_Act [2] http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2011/09/noncomps.html http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2011/09/no...