Usually, hotels dont give release or NOC to their employees if you transfer work to another hotels especially if it happens to be their competitors.They says its an Internal Company Policy. Coz if they start to give release to some employees, then everybody would look out for better opportunity outside coz hotels do pay peanuts.

But in this case, Rydges is shutting down? Then, I couldn't really understand why is it so hard for them to give a release. Its just a piece of paper that worth a future of their "HUMAN" employees.

Altogether, go to Labor Dept. and Human Rights Commission(along Dafna area). Good luck!