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Apple, Google and Others Set to Face Trial Over Anti-Poaching Agreements
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As long as the unions are allowed to lock up employment availability, I disagree with this type of suit. (What's good for the goose ... )
If the accusation is "Apple and Google had an agreement", then if the accusation against Apple is baseless, so is the accusation against Google. Or are you saying that everyone made these agreements, but Apple had the fingers crossed behind the back?
"Apple and Google had an agreement" could be a baseless accusation while "Intel and Google had an agreement" could be a legitimate accusation.
Bold: That's exactly who is harmed.
These companies, if the allegations are true, cooperated illegally to keep good job opportunities away from employees. Google has this job with a $100,000 salary, so they look everywhere for potential employees to fill the position and approach, but two of seven candidates are not approached because they work for Apple. Surely these two candidates were harmed.
No law at all. Read tbe article...its an agreement between a group of companies and signed up as binding contract.
If one of the signatories is found to have acted outside tbe agreement or allowed a third party to act an agent to recruit from within the other signatories.. its a breach of contract.
There may have been agreed compensation built into the agreement or those who consider thry have lost staff due to poaching...May seek redress in the courts.
There may be clauses and conditions and a raft of legal BS involved. The courts job is to assess the terms and decide if one of the parties has breached them.
In this case it seems the employees having become aware of the agreement..consider they have lost opportunities. There was nothing employers could do to stop any employee making an application to competitors and nothing to stop those competitors employing them
Disclaimer...... these are my own views and opinions....and I aint no lawyer,
But those two employees are free to apply for the job so how are they harmed?
Even if you still think there is harm, how would you put a price on the harm? Average pay of one company vs the others? Well then because some pay would be more than the others some would be less so some companies would pay from the class action and some would receive?
funny how microsoft was not part of the consortium
apparently no company wanted microsoft staff, and no one wanted to go work there
apparently no company wanted microsoft staff, and no one wanted to go work there
It is an old story but I think if someone from Apple applied Google notified Apple about it. Something people thinking about leaving a company usually prefer not to happen.
It isn't really about pay differencial , the salary at both companies is surpressed.
Wrong. The Apple candidates had just as much opportunity to apply and be hired for the job by contacting the company or its recruiters as any of the other candidates. Nobody is entitled to unsolicited job offers just because they're qualified for the job. If they were, I would have a far better job than most of the people who post on this forum.
she has anti technology bias?
its good everywhere but the labour market along with most others markets (which affect the common man) suffer from the "freedom" in the current global economic system.
Wrong. They are entitled to the unsolicited job offer. Any company that wants that person in their company should be able to talk to that person, and that person should have that leverage. And I hope you know that these people can't even apply for a new position while they're still working for the company, because their names are on a no hire list. That hurts them. And they can't very well quit, then apply for a job. Thats stupid, to quit a good job, just to apply somewhere else.
Those 64000 people would have had a higher wage because there is the risk that if their pay wasn't good enough, another company will snatch them away.64000 "damaged" by this ? Get real.
How many would have actually been poached had this agreement not been in place? I doubt more then a few hundred at best.
I just hope US vs Corps is not a case of Warrior vs Dragon, like in this movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNtfobmOCZY&hd=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNtfobmOCZY&hd=1
It won't sound like it, but I really mean this question:
How on earth does anybody manage to live in CA with their funky rules?
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They are based in WA.