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Apple, Google Agree To Settle Lawsuit Alleging Hiring Conspiracy

Posted by samzenpus on from the have-some-money dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A group of tech companies including Google and Apple have agreed to settle an antitrust lawsuit over no-hire agreements in Silicon Valley. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. From the article: 'Tech workers filed a class action lawsuit against Apple Inc, Google Inc, Intel Inc and Adobe Systems Inc in 2011, alleging they conspired to refrain from soliciting one another's employees in order to avert a salary war. Trial had been scheduled to begin at the end of May on behalf of roughly 64,000 workers in the class.'"

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  1. Misleading headline by Virtucon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It should read: "Google and Apple agree to settle after seeing mountain of evidence against them."

    Likewise their statements will read something like: "We have agreed to settle this lawsuit in the hopes that it will bring closure to this situation and while we did nothing wrong we will amend our policies to treat all workers fairly. That is until we get caught again."

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    Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
    1. Re:Misleading headline by StillAnonymous · · Score: 5, Insightful

      They pull this hypocritical card all the time. If prices on something are high, they just dismiss with "supply and demand, econ 101, deal with it, blah blah". Then they go and purchase laws that prevent competition, and other laws to prevent you from importing the product from overseas for a cheaper price.

      On the other hand, when there's a low supply of skilled of workers (or even if there isn't), rather than raising salaries to attract the talent, they again purchase laws that allow to bring overseas employees into the picture and screw over the local workers once again.

    2. Re:Misleading headline by maz2331 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      My question is: where the HELL is the Labor Department and the Commerce Department on all this? The small company I work at went through a month of poking, prodding, audits, etc. by the Dept. of Labor looking for overtime violations or miscategorizing employees as salary vs. hourly, and all they found was $2000 over 3 years, and even that was questionable.

  2. On the subject of collusion by jmd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If ten people can sit around a table and decide what to pay me, I should be able to have 10 people sit around a table and decide what I will work for.

    You know corporations rig the game. Do you still see unions in a bad light now?