The employee non-compete agreement is legal in forty-seven states. It prohibits employees from leaving their company to work for a competing employer within "reasonable" time, location and work scope parameters. Once the concern only of highly-skilled engineering and technical workers, noncompetes are now being imposed on journalists, camp counselors, hairdressers and sandwich deliverymen. Economic research indicating their negative effects on start-ups, wage and economic growth is prompting White House calls for legal reform, actual reform in Hawaii and Utah, and litigation by New York and Illinois attorneys general.