2006 Code of Virginia § 40.1-27 - Preventing employment by others of former employee

40.1-27. Preventing employment by others of former employee.

No person doing business in this Commonwealth, or any agent or attorney ofsuch person after having discharged any employee from the service of suchperson or after any employee shall have voluntarily left the service of suchperson shall willfully and maliciously prevent or attempt to prevent by wordor writing, directly or indirectly, such discharged employee or such employeewho has voluntarily left from obtaining employment with any other person. Forviolation of this section the offender shall be guilty of a misdemeanor andshall, on conviction thereof, be fined not less than $100 nor more than $500.But this section shall not be construed as prohibiting any person from givingon application for any other person a truthful statement of the reason forsuch discharge, or a truthful statement concerning the character, industryand ability of such person who has voluntarily left.

(Code 1950, 40-22; 1970, c. 321.)