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Match.com sues former employees

According to Reuters [link], Match.com has sued six former employees because they took a job at a competing online dating company.

Match.com declined to comment on the legal issue, but TrueBeginnings CEO Herb Vest was much more vocal.

Vest took out full-page advertisements in the Monday and Tuesday editions of The Wall Street Journal and The Dallas Morning News, calling the actions "a blatant effort to intimidate these six individuals."

Like a hero in a romance novel, Vest vowed to defend his employees. "To get to them, you must, first, come through me," Vest wrote in the ad. "True reviewed the employees' agreements, and we firmly believe that we have not broken any rules by hiring them."

Online Dating Insider gives a big thumbs down to Match.com for trying to deny its former employees the right to earn a living.

posted June 17, 2004