For transparency I am an Intuit employee who uses ProSeries for my tax practice (practice is small so I can go a few months working 2 jobs).  Intuit is no different than any other company looking to employee tax preparers.  Yes, they can offer more because they are a big company but if your employee was looking for that then don't fault Intuit.

I understand that it puts you in a bind but did someone from Intuit pose as a client, have your employee prepare their return, ask them how much they made and then made them an offer of more?

And yes, as an Intuit employee I do post and look at this forum, it's part of what I pay for when I use ProSeries.  Like today, I saw this post as I was looking to solve another issue that I have.