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Silicon Valley Workers May Pursue Salary-Fixing Lawsuit

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First time accepted submitter amartha writes with news that a lawsuit alleging Silicon Valley companies of colluding to lower wages is going forward as a class action. From the article: "Roughly 60,000 Silicon Valley workers won clearance to pursue a lawsuit accusing Apple Inc, Google Inc, and others of conspiring to drive down pay by not poaching each other's staff, after a federal appeals court refused to let the defendants appeal a class certification order."

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  1. IANAL, but... by jddeluxe · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It might be difficult to prove the INTENT of the "no poaching" agreement was to suppress wages. Unless any of the defendants were stoopid enough to refer to such in emails or other discoverable documentation.

  2. The times, they are a-changing. by jtownatpunk.net · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not. Looks like things haven't changed in generations.

    My grandpa moved from the east coast to the west coast back in the 50s because of non-poaching agreements in the aircraft industry.

  3. I worked for HP about 15 years ago. by mark_reh · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Every year the HR people would make presentations to us about how they got together with HR people from other big engineering companies in the valley and decided upon job descriptions and pay and benefits packages, and by the way decided that the COL raise this year would be X%.

    My coworkers, most of whom were oblivious to the big picture, would cheer at the annual pay raise and I would grumble about the salary fixing that they were proudly presenting.

    I wonder if I can get in on the class-action suit...