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Anti-Poaching Lawsuit Against Apple, Google and Others Given the Green Light

Posted by samzenpus on from the hands-off dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A class action lawsuit against Apple, Google and a number of other high-profile tech companies has been given the green light by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh. The lawsuit stems from anti-poaching agreements that Apple a number of tech companies entered into from 2005 through 2009. Parties to the agreement all promised not to recruit employees from one another. The companies involved include Apple, Intel, Google, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm, and Adobe."

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  1. Re:I'm confused by LordNimon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    People get paid more? I think you're confused. Anti-poaching agreements results in employees being paid less.

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  2. Re:Where's the union? by DontBlameCanada · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If the unions were still strong, they could've blocked the offshoring of workers by calling a company-wide strike in the US. That would've been effective while most of the talent and production was local. Corp-Exec bonuses are hard to justify when your sales are the shits because the corp wasn't producing anything for an extended period.

    Now that all the jobs are disseminated to 3rd/4th world areas without any worker protection, the power is gone and won't be coming back.