I seem to be in the minority here, but legality aside, I don't see an agreement between companies not to poach each other's employees as a terribly sinister thing. In fact, it seems entirely reasonable to mutually agree not to actively recruit employees from another company.
Once you talk about refusing to hire potential employees who apply of their own volition, that would be another thing, but in my mind "no cold call" != "wage fixing scheme".
(I assume I'm likely missing something though, so I welcome counter-arguments. Would this still be a problem even if all they had done was avoid actively recruiting?)
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I seem to be in the minority here, but legality aside, I don't see an agreement between companies not to poach each other's employees as a terribly sinister thing. In fact, it seems entirely reasonable to mutually agree not to actively recruit employees from another company.
Once you talk about refusing to hire potential employees who apply of their own volition, that would be another thing, but in my mind "no cold call" != "wage fixing scheme".
(I assume I'm likely missing something though, so I welcome counter-arguments. Would this still be a problem even if all they had done was avoid actively recruiting?)