Poacher and recruitment

Many newspapers in India have always excelled in the dirty habit of giving counter-offers to their journalists who managed a new job with enormous difficulty. Those days are mostly over, thank God. The media honchos have always refused to pay according to your true worth, until a poacher came along to pay you double your true value!
Counter-offers to keep staffers are mostly gone. If 'X' poaches from 'Y', the 'poached staffer' is immediately absorbed into 'X', with the new employer paying up the notice period dues. This leaves little time for further negotiations for the journalist to extract salaries from current employer. There is a new kind of forced ethics - the papers cannot offer cannot counter-offers, and journalists can't take them anymore.