The Massachusetts legislature passed the Massachusetts Noncompetition Agreement Act (MNAA) in 2018, culminating a longstanding effort to balance employers’ rights to protect legitimate business interests—such as trade secrets, goodwill, and proprietary information—against employees’ rights to pursue future job opportunities. The law imposes restrictions on the use of noncompetition agreements entered on or after October 1, 2018, with employees who work or reside in Massachusetts for at least 30 days prior to the termination of employment. On June 13, 2025, in Miele v. Foundation Medicine, Inc., the state Supreme Judicial Court issued a unanimous decision that narrows the potential scope of the MNAA’s definition of noncompetition agreements and preserves for employers the ability to protect one of their most valuable assets, their employees.