RIM complains Moto not letting it hire laid-off employees
December 24 2008 - 12:50 pm ET | Gary E. Salazar |
Research In Motion Ltd. and Motorola Inc. continue to squabble in court regarding the future of employees that Motorola has already terminated or plans to fire, according to court records.
RIM, maker of the popular BlackBerry smartphone line, filed a complaint Tuesday in state circuit court in Chicago claiming that Motorola is improperly blocking the Canadian company from offering jobs to laid-off Motorola workers.
The complaint stems from a nondisclosure accord the companies agreed to in February, according to court records. The companies agreed to exchange information about a confidential matter and the deal expired in August.
In September, Motorola, which is based in Schaumburg, Ill., sued RIM in violation of the agreement. Motorola asked a judge to bar RIM from using Motorola’s confidential information or trying to hire Motorola employees.
RIM contends Motorola is trying to expand the expired agreement “to prevent the RIM entities from hiring any Motorola employees, including the thousands of employees Motorola has already fired or will fire,” according to RIM’s complaint.
Officials for RIM and Motorola could not be reached for comment.
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Motorola has fallen to a new low. Its management and board are shameful. If Motorola execuives cannot use employees to make succeful products, then management should not intefer with people trying to put bread on their table and educating their children. Menawhile Mr. Jha gets $30 million in 2010. Motorola is an case study in FAILED LEADERSHIP.
From business view point, may be it is "OK" for Moto not letting RIM to hire employees to secure the confidential information however, if the contract is already expired, it should not be expanded.
This is really bad. Is Moto wants that people who have been loyal and worked for them for years remains in misery and jobless after they fire them which is almost one-two times in single quarter since past so many years. Employment is at will in US and if company can fire people when they see the need then why employees are sabotaged here and can't have choice based on useless grounds that confidential information is shared since if it were be better economy, none of them would stay in MOTO anyway.
Can you please correct the "read more.." links in the main page and the newsletter, they don't work.