Civil Litigation,
Labor/Employment
Oct. 18, 2018
Viacom accuses Netflix of poaching executive
Netflix argues in its defense that “legacy studio employment practices create unenforceable obligations under California law.”
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Netflix Inc. has been sued by media distributor Viacom Inc., which accuses the streaming service of poaching an executive in flagrant violation of her fixed-term contract -- a practice the company has been previously accused of in a similar case.
According to the complaint filed on Oct. 5, Netflix lured former Viacom Executive Vice President Momita Sengupta away well before the expiration of her employment deal. The document states ...
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