Hospital Sues At-Will Workers for Getting Better Jobs

[Effete Snob]

2. At will does apply evenly

All of the employees can quit their jobs.

The suit is not being accurately described, because the actual lawsuit is not as interesting.

The first thing worth understanding is that the suit is not against the employees. The suit is against the other hospital, and claims that the other hospital engaged in unlawful recruiting methods and misappropriation of competitive information in order to engage in unfair competition.

I have no opinion about the merits of the underlying suit, but it is not about whether the employees have the right to quit their jobs and work somewhere else. They do have that right. However, competitors are not allowed to misappropriate proprietary data in order to compete. That’s what the suit is actually about.