Latest update June 25th, 2026 9:38 AM
Poaching vs. Competitive Recruiting
DEAR EDITOR,
The complaint from the Pegasus Hotel management which was headlined in yesterday’s (Jan. 28) KN that the Marriott Hotel is “deliberately stealing employees from local hotels” is tantamount to shooting at the wrong target.
Subject to doing so within the laws of the land, Marriott Hotel, like any other employer, is at liberty to offer prospective employees whatever type or level of compensation, benefits, working conditions etc it can afford in order to attract, recruit and retain the employees they need. (Of course, if these are conspicuously out of sync with what is being enjoyed by relatively comparable employees in the same organization then that opens another ‘can of worms’)
What the newspaper report referred to as “pouching”, obviously meaning ‘poaching’, is not different from what Human Resource practitioners typically call ‘headhunting”, a practice that is au courant among progressive employers, especially those in the competitive, global market place for much needed, desirable employees. This is a more direct, deliberate, focused form of ‘confidential recruitment’ which is in vogue among the most decent, morally upright and progressive employers around the world; some even offer ‘inducements’ which are legal but might still be regarded by the more ‘prudent’ as unethical; they are still ‘fair game’ in the increasing competition for scarce, top flight human resources.
This is not to deny the inalienable right of the management of our Pegasus Hotel to complain about the reported unfair actions of our Government in the context of alleged unjustified, improper, preferential ‘fiscal concessions” and tax exemptions being allowed to the Marriott Hotel Inc. However, as was pointed out above, this is another set of issues unrelated to poaching or stealing of employees from local hotels.
Nowrang Persaud
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