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Companies’ ability to block employees from going to work for a competitor keeps getting narrower and less legally certain, as state limits on restrictive employment contracts spread alongside federal scrutiny.

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Minnesota just became the fourth state to&nbsp;ban virtually all&nbsp;employee noncompetes, and a slew of others have recently considered following suit. The bans add to a diaspora of limits that states have enacted over the last decade and continue to expand, many of them aimed at banning noncompetes for low- or middle-income workers or restricting their use in specific professions, like healthcare.

“There’s just a lot going on” related to noncompete policies,&nbsp;said Kevin M. Passerini, an attorney with Blank Rome LLP in Philadelphia. “It’s drinking from a fire hose.”

States Add to ‘Fire Hose’ of Noncompete Issues Vexing Employers

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