Hospital Sues At-Will Workers for Getting Better Jobs

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12. I get that companies can't interfere with contracts and can't illegally recruit employees

but I fail to see how either of these happened here, and wonder about a need to mitigate, even if it did. The fact is, undisputed, that the 2nd hospital offered a better deal to the workers then the first one did. It is also undisputed that there were no contracts but at will employment, and no non compete clause is being mentioned. So, I don't see why, even if they did target those employees (who have a specialized skill) how on earth the first hospital was able to get this order issued. The first hospital had an easy mitigation strategy, offer the same deal to those employees that the 2nd hospital did. They willfully chose, solely on the basis of cost, not to do that. While this is dressed up as suing the 2nd hospital, it is, in reality, trying to make those workers only have one option to offer their labor to, if they don't wish to move. This is nothing short of outrageous and frankly those workers should get damages of 10 times their wages for every day this order stays in effect to be split between the first hospital and this corrupt judge.