labor - Foxconn sues two former staffs for US 8.75 million

The Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn has turned again to the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court to sue two former employees, who joined another company, for breaking their contract, writes the People's Daily.
The case seems at this stage not connected with the other high-profile court case against journalists of the China Business News.
Foxconn accuses the two former employees, who joined the Byd Battery Co., of infringement of its trade and technology secrets. Labor contracts in China have a standard paragraph banning employees from joining a competing company within one year of termination of the labor contract, but it is a longstanding tradition that this paragraph is rather meaningless.
Last year, in another high-profile case, Microsoft tried to prevent a former employee, Kai Fu-Lee, to become the Google CEO for China. After some heavy-handed exchanges the case was in the end settled out of court and Kai could start his job.

It starts to look like Foxconn has hired a new legal councel who has to work on a per-piece basis too.