The former employer is suing the employee for attempting to recruit it's employees by connecting to and communicating with them on LinkedIn.<p>The article seems to be concerned with the first part of this - does connecting to someone on a social media site constitute recruitment?<p>This seems to completely miss the meat of the lawsuit buried on the second page of the article:<p><i>The TEKsystems complaint lists a specific example of a LinkedIn communication where Hammernik appears to be inviting a employee of the firm to join her new company.</i>