FlippyKing 1 insightful - 0 fun - 3 hours ago Also though, when the host says you can quit when you want, some judges seem to think they can have a say in the matter: https://lasvegassun.com/news/2022/jan/27/when-a-medical-team-quit-this-hospital-sued-to-for/

Based on the arguments put forward by the employer ThedaCare, they essentially guilt tripped the court into ordering an injunction preventing the workers from taking up their new jobs. That sets a very bad precedent.

The seven workers say they all applied on their own initiative. They asked ThedaCare to match the offers, but ThedaCare declined, stating that “the long-term expense to ThedaCare was not worth the short-term cost,” Breister wrote.

Ascension essentially set the going rate for technical expertise in stroke care by offering the workers more than they were earning at ThedaCare and with better hours. (Ascension, unlike ThedaCare, doesn’t run its stroke services around the clock.)

ThedaCare didn’t choose to meet that rate. Instead, it sought sympathy from the court by complaining about how Ascension’s hirings, “at the height of a pandemic surge, will disrupt access to critical care for the people in our region.”

The injunction acted as a judicial version of a “noncompete” clause, which allows employers to bar their workers from moving to a putatively rival business. In a few states, including California, noncompete clauses are unenforceable; in others, they’ve been imposed on professional employees and even fast-food workers.