By Jerome Coleman (May 23, 2018, 12:04 PM EDT) -- A flurry of bills were recently introduced by Democrats in both the House and Senate seeking to prohibit or severely limit employment restrictive covenants.[1] This effort comes in the aftermath of coordinated similar efforts by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the White House in the waning days of the Obama administration, and by some states' attorney generals, notably former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. While the fate of these bills is uncertain at best, nonetheless a useful tool remains in the employer arsenal restricting post-employment competition if the groundwork is properly created and administered — the employee choice doctrine....