Microsoft sued as court action over employee no-poach deal mounts A court filing in May 2013 has attracted more class-action lawsuits, alleging secret no-poaching deals among tech companies to keep salaries low. Oracle, Microsoft and Ask are facing suits alleging that they conspired to restrict hiring of staff. The suits appear to refer to a memo which names a large number of companies that allegedly had special arrangements with Google to prevent poaching of staff. The document was filed as an exhibit on May 17, 2013 in another class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose division over hiring practices. The tech workers who filed that suit alleged that Google, Apple, Intel, Adobe Systems, Intuit, Lucasfilm and Pixar put each others employees off-limits to other companies by introducing measures such as do-not-cold-call lists.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click hereBy John Ribeiro A court filing in May 2013 has attracted more class-action lawsuits, alleging secret no-poaching deals among tech companies to keep salaries low. Oracle, Microsoft and Ask are facing suits alleging that they conspired to restrict hiring of staff. The suits appear to refer to a memo which names a large number of companies that allegedly had special arrangements with Google to prevent poaching of staff. The document was filed as an exhibit on May 17, 2013 in another class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose division over hiring practices. The tech workers who filed that suit alleged that Google, Apple, Intel, Adobe Systems, Intuit, Lucasfilm and Pixar put each others employees off-limits to other companies by introducing measures such as do-not-cold-call lists.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here ift.tt/1gB4pon
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 11:42:00 +0000
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