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Steve Jobs told Google to stop poaching workers (2012)

1 pointsby harporoederover 4 years ago

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eesmithover 4 years ago
See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...</a><p>&gt; In June 2014, Judge Lucy Koh expressed concern that the settlement may not be a good one for the plaintiffs. Michael Devine, one of the plaintiffs, said the settlement [of $324.5 million] is unjust. In a letter he wrote to the judge he said the settlement represents only one-tenth of the $3 billion in compensation the 64,000 workers could have made if the defendants had not colluded.[19]<p>The final settlement was for &quot;$415 million and other companies settled for $20 million.&quot;<p>Remember, wage theft and related crimes are wide-spread because they are so profitable and because people don&#x27;t get thrown into jail over them.
JMTQp8lwXLover 4 years ago
This Reuters article is from 2012, but that might be obvious to readers, given the mention to Jobs.