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The Outrageous Hunters: Does Headhunting Violate Business Standards?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Andreas Maurer

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During the last few years the German courts have had to face several cases in which companies — especially from the IT-sector — filed lawsuits against “headhunters.” “Headhunters” in this context are (usually) executive consultants who try to poach personnel from other companies by simply calling them and asking whether or not they want to change companies. Since skilled and qualified workers and employees are desperately but often unsuccessfully searched by innumerable German companies on the domestic and most recently also the European and international job-market, the methods of poaching have reached and sometimes crossed the borders of unfair practices. The courts faced with these cases had to draw these borders, a process this article attempts to outline.

Type
Research Article
Information
German Law Journal , Volume 2 , Issue 17 , 2001 , E7
Copyright
Copyright © 2001 by German Law Journal GbR 

References

(1) Even the German state supports the companies? efforts to recruit skilled and specialized foreign IT-personnel with the German “Green Card” regulations (Verordnung ueber die Arbeitsgenehmigung fuer hoch qualifizierte ausländische Fachkräfte der Informations-und Kommunikationstechnologie published on 11 July 2000 [BUNDESGESETZBLATT I 2000, p. 1146 seq.]; Verordnung über Aufenthaltserlaubnisse fuer hoch qualifizierte auslaendische Fachkräfte der Informations-und Kommunikationstechnologie published on 11 July 2000 [BUNDESGESETZBLATT I 2000 p. 1176 seq.]). With this “Green Card” foreign IT-specialists can receive a temporary employment permit.Google Scholar

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