The Department of Justice announced, on May 1, a settlement of its antitrust lawsuit against eBay, Inc. over that company’s no-poaching agreement with Intuit, in which the companies agreed not to hire or solicit each other’s employees.
Companies often enter into agreements with business partners that they will not hire employees of the other company. For example, a company that retains a third party service provider might promise, as part of its contract, that it will not hire, for a limited period of time, the service provider’s employees who worked on the contract, and the service provider might agree not to hire employees it worked with in providing the services.