No-Poaching Agreements

No-poaching agreements appear in How we got free agents in baseball as the ordinary-employment comparison for [[MajorLeagueBaseball|Major League Baseball]]’s [[BaseballReserveClause|reserve clause]]. The episode says that agreements among companies such as Google and Apple not to hire each other’s workers are illegal because they suppress competition for labor.

The comparison helps generalize [[LaborMonopsony|labor monopsony]] beyond sports. A worker does not need one formal employer to face restricted choice; coordinated employer behavior or league rules can also block outside offers and weaken wage bargaining.

Connections

• Google, Apple, Labor Monopsony, and Baseball Reserve Clause - comparison made by the source.
• Sports Player Autonomy, Sports Collective Bargaining, and Baseball Free Agency - adjacent labor-market power concepts.