When competitors make agreements with one another about what they will charge, the territories they will divide, the customers each will sell or the employees they will hire, red flags should raise because antitrust issues may be implicated. Last year I wrote about the settlement several Silicon Valley technology companies reached with the US Department
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Does Texas Law Recognize a Claim against Competitor’s Poaching of Employee?
By Russell Cawyer on
Posted in Human Resources, Trade Secrets
Many times one competitor sues another competitor over the hiring or two or more employees (whether over allegations of a breach of contract or misappropriation of trade secrets), the Complaint will make allegations of employee "poaching". This gives rise to the question about whether Texas recognizes a cause of action for one competitor’s poaching of another competitor’s…