Anti Competitive behaviour

[Clippy]

Merry Xmas DA.

[DodgyAgent]

You have no chance as you are not even in their industry. Now if you were part of oil and gas industry and all other companies in the same sector agreed to some anti-competitive deal that would cost you, then you might have had a case.

Employees may have a case but I doubt it also.

IANAL of course.

Frankly behavior of recruiters in this case was appalling and had detrimental effect on the industry in question - one of a few that actually still have real export potential. You should not be spending time to get someone change the job in order for you to make money, you should be finding jobs for people who either want to leave themselves or happened to be out of job/contract at the moment.

I am sure there is a web forum for self righteous pr*cks like you somewhere else

[AtW]

Should this be a privilege reserved for those directors who take huge pay packets when headhunted by another company, along with a risk-free severance package? Should it perhaps be reserved for footballers who are offered a gazillion squid to move to Barcelona?

Directors or highly talented individuals are effectively one off case. Doing "headhunting" en masse creates serious problems, it is not for the benefit of workers either - they will get less training, less trust etc. The only winners are recruiters: in this case they act the same way as ambulance chasing lawyers.

[minestrone]

I know for a fact that all the big financials in, ehhm, some city near me, agreed to cut day rates by the same amount at the same time.

[minestrone]

This could be a 20 pager

[AtW]

I am sure there is a web forum for self righteous pr*cks like you somewhere else

If the margins that you are trying to protect as so fat then why won't you get proper legal opinion? Don't you have company solicitors to advise you on it?

You got zero chance even if you could prove that those big companies agreed to cap amounts they pay out to agencies: this isn't anti competitive because you are not competing with them.

If I were you I'd better be checking current legal case in London about one City firm poaching (head hunting) traders from another: that's more relevant to your activities.

HTH

[Mich the Tester]

Directors or highly talented individuals are effectively one off case.

Who is to decide who the 'highly talented individuals' are?

I am a highly educated specialist in my field, AND I am a director. Am I a 'two off' case? Or a 'half off' case? A nutcase perhaps?

Why shouldn't I enjoy the benefits of having gained the skills for which companies will compete to hire my services? Why shouldn't I profit from that competition? The companies who hire me profit from using my skills, so why shouldn't I? And if some dodgy bloke is able to get me an even better deal, why shouldn't he profit too?

[DimPrawn]

Not following this thread, but does it mean agents are starving to death on the streets?

[Mich the Tester]

I know for a fact that all the big financials in, ehhm, some city near me, agreed to cut day rates by the same amount at the same time.

Is that city Amsterdam, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Edinburgh, Dublin, New York or all of them at the same time?

They did it here too.

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Directors or highly talented individuals are effectively one off case. Doing "headhunting" en masse creates serious problems, it is not for the benefit of workers either - they will get less training, less trust etc. The only winners are recruiters: in this case they act the same way as ambulance chasing lawyers.

Oh, so an Oil&Gas Engineer, often with training spanning over 12 years is not a highly talented individual?

The industry moves forward constantly and one has to continue to retrain.

And often the only way to get that training is to swap jobs as often as possible.

Alexi, you makes I to laugh, you really do.