Avoiding inducement during recruitment

When recruiting new employees, how can an employer make sure it doesn’t induce people from leaving their existing job?

Avoiding inducement during recruitment

Question: When recruiting new employees, how can an employer make sure it doesn’t induce people from leaving their existing job?

Answer: In seeking to hire employees who are qualified and motivated, employers will want to consider whether their recruitment practices have the effect of inducing people from leaving a secure position of employment. Where an employee is induced away from secure employment and then subsequently terminated from that new employment without cause, it may lead to an increased entitlement to pay in lieu of notice at common law.

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