"Apple, Google and Intel are being sued for striking a secret agreement among themselves not to poach employees from each other. Which is, um, how should we put this? Not kosher? "Likely illegal," is how Ed Colligan, former CEO of Palm, described it when they asked him to join the devil's bargain. Because, yeah. Turns out it's frowned upon when companies collude to keep workers from making as much money as they can.
The pact now may come back to haunt these companies as employees are suing them over lost wages. The damages could run into the hundreds of millions.
But the best part, as always, is the treasure trove of documents coming out in discovery. The best ones are the ones that show Apple CEO Steve Jobs throwing temper tantrums and threatening lawsuits when competitors hire away his engineers. (The Verge has a great rundown with lots of documents.)"...
"Keep in mind that the real victims of what Jobs was proposing are front-line engineers whose incomes would be constrained because their bosses had struck a deal not to poach from one another. This was rich guys making deals to screw their engineers and boost their own profits."
More:
News Flash: Steve Jobs Bullied Rivals And Was Kind Of A Dick
http://readwrite.com/2013/01/23/news-flash-steve-jobs-bullied-rivals-and-was-kind-of-a-dick
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From past cases 9in the uk
an employer to make a restraint of
trade clause on his employee
preventing him to open a
competitive business
near his premise within a
reasonable period of time.
In the case of Apple and its cahoots
,employer A makes contracts with
other rivals B,C ...X to
restraint its employee
from getting a better wage/job.
It looks similar to the above
reasoning.
On the grounds of pro -business
which
the US courts are willing to help
protect, Apple and its cahoots may
just get away with such a policy.
If one were to read cases in
Australia,
a son purportedly lost at sea [1]
was not allowed to claim from his
own dad's
estate on public policy grounds!
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kkk
[1] the son was on a voyage and
the ship
met a storm and was shipwrecked
on an island. Somehow he survived
and managed to make his way back
to Australia.
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