"Overregulation" of recruitment by federal and state governments and "tech gluttony" are distracting staffing specialists from their core work this year, according to a panel of industry leaders.
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The former president of the Fair Work Commission has called for new restrictions on restraint clauses, in a paper that will further fuel government moves to limit their use.
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A recruitment company has a "sufficiently strong" case against a former business development manager who it claimed breached his contract by soliciting clients away to his new employer, the Federal Court has ruled.
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A recruitment company has won confidentiality and solicitation restraints against a competitor and a former employee, after a court found it faced a "high risk" of "irreparable damage" if an injunction wasn't imposed.
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An organisation has won an injunction upholding a former employee's restraints, after telling a court it has already lost 21 clients to his new employer.
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After hiring two employees from a competitor, HR software company Elmo has won one dispute and lost the other over whether the post-employment restraints in their contracts were reasonable.
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Employers must beware adopting a "blanket approach" to post-employment restraints, a lawyer has stressed in the wake of a failed injunction application.
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A recruitment company, whose founder was previously involved in a court dispute over her former employer's confidential information, has won interim restraints against three ex-employees.
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Measures to protect against post-employment risks have never been more important, but it's critical to implement, enforce and review them throughout the employment relationship, a lawyer says.
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Understanding how contractual restraints work is especially critical for recruiters in the current market, but awareness appears to be worryingly low, says industry coach and commentator Ross Clennett.
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A recruitment company has failed to win interim restraints against three former employees, with a court finding their "know-how" didn't fall within its available protections.
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It's "inevitable" that restraint disputes will continue to rise given the current market, and a new ruling provides some important insights as to how courts will adjudicate them, says industry advisor Martin Richardson.
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A former HiTech account manager has successfully defended an injunction application that would have restrained him from external recruitment activity at his new employer, after providing "extensive undertakings" not to breach his contract.
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An employer induced a new recruit to breach his employment contract by enticing a former colleague to join its business, a court has ruled in an important restraint dispute.
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Harrier Group has failed to convince a court that concerns about its former CEO breaching her restraints were anything more than a "suspicion".
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