In the clash between two US HR giants over corporate espionage claims, the High Court rules that individual Deel employees will not be joined to Rippling’s case.
Newly unsealed US court documents from Revolut show a payment to Rippling employee Keith O’Brien from the wife of rival US HR giant Deel’s COO.
The judge accepted that Hayes behaved with integrity and acted as one would expect of an officer of the court.
While self-avowed spy Keith O'Brien's case against a "campaign of surveillance, harassment and intimidation" continues, the judge expressed "severe concerns" over a "misleading" letter from Hayes solicitors on behalf of Deel.
Former Rippling employee Keith O'Brien went to court today to stop an alleged “campaign of surveillance, harassment and intimidation”.
Former Rippling employee Keith O’Brien confronted the man at traffic lights near Dublin Airport after claiming he hadbeen "tailed" multiple times. HR software firm Deel has categorically denied it has anything to do with it.
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