Judge Lucy Koh of California has rejected a proposed settlement by Apple, Google, and other companies that allegedly agreed to not poach or hire each others employees. Court documents say that Koh said the $324 million settlement wasnt high enough to compensate for the lost wages employees may have suffered. The case in question involves four companies: Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe. Workers claim that from 2005 to 2009, company executives had routinely collaborated to keep from hiring employees away from their jobs — an anti-competitive practice. Emails from Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt, and others seemed to show them asking each other to stop recruiting from each others companies, entering into surreptitious gentlemens agreements. Judge Koh certified the case as a class-action lawsuit in October of last year, making over 64,000 workers eligible to receive damages to compensate them for potentially having their wages kept artificially low.
Judge rejects $324 million settlement from Apple, Google, and others over no-hire scandal
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