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En Pointe Files Suit in Employee Dispute

By DEBORAH CROWE Los Angeles Business Journal Staff IT services provider En Pointe Technologies Inc. is countersuing a Toronto competitor that claims En Pointe is hiring away its employees to gain access to its trade secrets. Gardena-based En Pointe said Thursday that it is seeking a court declaration that Softchoice Corp. has engaged in improper business practices by using anti-competitive clauses in its employment contracts and policies which unlawfully restrict an individual's ability to work. "We believe that Softchoice wrongfully threatens suit against employees who dare to leave them," En Pointe Vice President Michael Rapp said in a statement

Full post as published by The Trade Secrets Vault on July 05, 2008 (boomark / email).