If you think that the court wars currently taking place between Apple and Google and others have arisen recently due to the conflict in the world of operating systems, copying of each company to other products and the violation of its patents, this information is incorrect. War is old and complex, and it is not limited to systems but even employees. There are secret agreements and court wars over employees.

Big Corporations and Secret Staff War


Confidential non-employment agreements

It seems that Apple and Google will be brought before the courts and this time the two will be in the dock! As for the charge, it is a confidential agreement between them stipulating that they will not employ each other's employees (Do-Not-Hire), and thus they will face many charges such as violating the antitrust law. According to news leaked to newspapers, Google, Apple and dozens of other tech giants have concluded illegal and confidential agreements between them that stipulate not to hire or hire any of their current or former employees without the mother company's knowledge, whatever the reasons. This revealed the leaked emails that date back to 2005 between Eric Schmidt - at that time he was the CEO of Google - as well as “Sergey Brin,” the founder of the company, and other leaders. In one of them, “Sergey” spoke about “Steve Jobs” contact with him and that he was furiously angry at his company's attempts to appoint Employees working on the Safari browser. Sergey said that "Jobs" is sure that they are working on a browser - which Chrome had not appeared - and that his company - Google - is seeking to steal and threaten Apple employees and other details.

Watch the email

But the strange thing is that after only two days, "Sergey Brin" sent another email in which he mentioned that he had received another call from "Steve Jobs", but it is noticed in this email that Sergey ordered his employees not to appoint employees from Apple. Was Sergey not aware of the agreement that Eric Schmidt, who was then a member of the board of directors of Apple and also CEO of Google, might have concluded, and after Jobs' first call, he knew about it?

See the second email

In the case papers, an email also appeared days after this incident, but this time it was issued to Apple's hiring managers and explicitly mentions adding Google to the list of companies that do not hire any of their employees. Hey, "List" This means that there are other agreements, not only with Google !!!.

See Apple's email to the recruitment section

Away from Apple this time, the executive director of "ebay" contacted "Eric Schmith" and told him that Google's human resources department had attempted to include a senior manager at "ebay" and offered him huge sums of money. And again the same thing that happened with Apple, where "Eric" addressed his colleagues at Google, but was he just talking? He even fired the employee who had a meeting with the ebay manager. This means that he committed a major offense to get fired, and "Eric" hinted in his email that they should not harm companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo and eBay. Are these companies also within the confidentiality agreements ?!

Eric's dismissal email

Of course, someone might say that it is unreasonable and these emails are fake. Well, let's look at the appointment agreement at Google, which includes the names of giant companies such as Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, IBM, Intel, and others, and calls for restricting the appointment of employees from them or even communications.

These emails go back to 2005, so does anyone mention that Google has appointed any senior employees of any of the previous companies during the last 10 years? !!


BlackBerry suing an employee who wanted to move to Apple

We go back to the present time, where the BlackBerry company announced that it will file a lawsuit against a former manager named "Sebastian Marnio" to prevent him from working for Apple. The story of this employee goes back to last September, when he announced his desire to move to Apple. Here, BlackBerry offered to the employee to occupy the vice president of the company for systems, and he agreed and signed a contract in December that he must inform BlackBerry two months before leaving it, meaning he will not leave before “February”, However, it seems that he did not read the papers well or hurried as he also signed that he had been promoted to “EVP” for developing systems on the condition that he notify the company 6 months in advance. And now "Sebastian" wanted to leave BlackBerry, but hey, the company declared war on him and sue him to complete the agreement and continue until June. Whether the BlackBerry position was legal or deceived the employee, the bottom line is that companies will prevent their employees from moving to the competitor in any way and in any form.

Do you think that companies have the right to conclude secret agreements between them to prevent employees from moving between them to protect their secrets, or do you see it as a violation of the employee's freedom of work? Share your opinion

Article author | Bashar Ahmed

Sources | businessinsidericlarified

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