I know a way they can keep their employees -- pay them more money. What? They never thought of that? And it was so simple.
They had the cash to lawyer up, just not to pay their people. It’s not a crime to make a job offer to someone. At every software developer I worked for over the last 20 years, the employment contract stated that if you leave, you can’t work in the industry for a year. Everyone ignores it and no one tries to enforce it. If they had an agreement like that with their employer then it would be the employees that would get sued, not their new employer.
Isn't there something where you can get in trouble for interfering in a contract between two other parties? I'm thinking of tortious interference.
I wouldn’t put it past a lawyer to try and widen the circle of people he can sue. The two parties that made the agreement are the only ones that are limited. The guy that makes a better offer never agreed to anything.
Slave theft?
Employment is part contract law - an employment contract - but also part master servant law - passed down from the old times, pre democracy.
13th Amendment outlawed indentured servitude after the civil war. Employees are not slaves. They can quit at any time.
So you can't sue the employees - so sue the other hospital?
It's creative, if nothing else. It may also buy some time by gumming up the process.
Is there merit to tortiuos interference? Interference in a contractual relationship by a third party. Employment is only partly a contractual relationship. Yeah, perhaps there is a case here. Enough to force a hearing.
Technically, is it tortious interference if there is no breach of contract? The contract ends "unexpectedly," but not illegally, when the employees quit. Is why they quit even relevant if there is no breach of contract?
Quitting at any time, for any reason, is an implied, by law, part of the contract. Technically, the contract is fulfilled, or completed, at the time of quitting. So how has it been interfered with?
A trigger of an unexpected completion of a contract... via a third party job offer.
It's a hell of a stretch for interference.
Anything can happen in a court room.
if they have this mention they have to pay for the right to keep it going after contract ends. if they dont want to compensate you, they cant keep you from working in same field
Yeah, but when the whole development team quits at once no one dies. This is basically a whole cardiology and a whole interventional radiology team that are leaving at the same time. People will die over this. But overall it is the hospital's fault for not paying their staff.
The patients can follow the doctors over to Ascension too.
Nope. You get very little loyalty from wages.
Work conditions matter much more
I agree. There was one job offer I received about 10 years ago where the workplace in question was notorious for expecting stupid amounts of overtime and the burnout rate was about 3 months. They offered me more than I was being paid to work there, but I wouldn't have worked there even if they had offered me a million dollars a year. The mental and physical health cost just simply isn't worth it.
We only get one life and money evaporates and easily forgotten anyway
Fucking genius!! You must be the smartest person on the planet!
(((They))) seriously think we at that goddamn dumb.
At what?
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