Silicon Valley Fights Order To Pay Bigger Settlement In Tech Talent Hiring Case

The Washington Post carries a story from the Associated Press that says the big companies hit hardest by Judge Lucy Koh's ruling in the "No Poaching" case have not suprisingly appealed that ruling, which found that a proposed settlement of $324.5 million to a class-action lawsuit was too low. The suit, filed on behalf of 60,000 high-tech workers allegedlly harmed by anti-competitive hiring practices, will probably enter its next phase next January or March. (Judge Koh is probably not very popular at Apple in particular.) If you're one of those workers (or in an analogous situation), what kind of compensation or punitive action do you think is fair?

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there is nothing 'fair' about this

[udachny]

What the fuck does 'fair' have anything to do with anything? This is government meddling with people's private property (businesses) nothing else.

Anybody must be able to 'collude' with anybody in this precise manner for any purpose, it's their business. I must be able to come to an agreement with any company that we will not hire each other's employees or anybody we want for that matter.

THERE IS NO ENTITLEMENT TO ANYBODY'S JOBS and jobs are not there to give you employment, they are there only because the companies need particular things to be done and so they buy labour and government intrusion does only one thing: raises cost of doing business thus providing pretty good incentives to hire in some other countries altogether.

You are not entitled to be hired by anybody no matter what you believe and if you force employer's hands all you are going to get as a response will be pink slips and for a good reason, as the employers shift more and more of their operations somewhere else.