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> it can just offer them defined-term personal services contracts with suitable compensation. The ability to do that is HIGHLY restricted by labor laws. I'm no

• dragonwriter 12y ago
  > The ability to do that is HIGHLY restricted by labor laws. The ability to do that under the law is demonstrated by the fact that there are whole major industries where this kind of contracting with talent is normal. (Legal limitations tend to highly restrict the ability to get a remedy beyond money damages for breaches of such agreements, to be sure, but they don't tend to prevent the agreements themselves.) It tends to be expensive (both in terms of what you pay the talent and in terms of the overhead associated with contracting), but if the talent is really valuable enough, that's the price you pay. If you aren't willing to pay that price, you shouldn't complain about people "poaching" what you didn't want to pay the cost to have a durable claim to in the first place.