what seems to escape lawmakers is an essential feature of life, Fairness. Of course no employer wants to take on someone at great expense in fees, airfares, commission to agents, liability for debts etc. to see him depart to a competitor two minutes after arriving. However sponsors should structure their employment offers to ensure that they can recoup the costs they have paid and reap the benefits expected from the employee during contract period. Once that is over there should be no bar to the employee moving to another company which may offer a better deal. That is fairness, except in a few cases where trade secrets may be involved, an employer should wish his employee well at the end of his contract period and put no bar on him moving elsewhere. Anything else smacks of bonded labour or slavery which were abolished almost two hundred years ago in the British Empire. It took some time for our American friends to catch up but they did. Why is it such a problem elsewhere?