ganeshran Posted January 24, 2013 Posted January 24, 2013 The settlement could run into millions if this case gets converted to a class action lawsuit Steve Jobs threatened to sue the rival smartphone maker Palm over poaching of Apple staff, in a bid to enforce a clandestine pact between tech companies in Silicon Valley, new documents reveal. The late Apple co-founder menaced Palm with a patent lawsuit to try to compel adherence to a possibly illegal agreement between rival firms to not recruit each other's employees. The email from Jobs, along with other documents tech industry chiefs tried to keep secret, surfaced on Tuesday in a civil lawsuit brought by five tech workers against Apple and other companies including Google, Intel, Adobe, Walt Disney's Pixar animation unit, Intuit and Lucasfilm Ltd. The suit claims there was an illegal conspiracy to eliminate competition for each other's employees and to reduce wages, an alleged dark side to Silicon Valley's freewheeling, sunny public image. Steve Jobs threatens Palm chief of lawsuit if they didnt stop hiring Apple engineers Eric Schmidt and Steve Jobs acknowledge the no hire policy Intel and Google's mutual no poaching agreement Eric Schmidt's mail to fire a recruiter who made an offer to one of the companies on the cold call list. Acknowledges threat of being sued Google's do-not-call list Shantanu Narayan acknowledges adobe-apple agreement
Crookbond Posted January 24, 2013 Posted January 24, 2013 Typical chewtiyagiri by Jobs. I don't understand it required the tech workers to file the case. The US DOJ should be as zealous as they are in other matters like the Swartz case. The weak are meat and the strong shall eat.
ganeshran Posted January 24, 2013 Author Posted January 24, 2013 The recruiter who was fired has a huge opportunity to sue. Even if Google settles out of court, she would be millions richer.
Desi Cartman Posted January 25, 2013 Posted January 25, 2013 bastards ! think about those people who felt they didnt get the jobs as they were not qualified enough. This is stupid
Clarke Posted January 25, 2013 Posted January 25, 2013 Dept of Commerce must whop their bums surely for such anti-competitive behavior ?
Crookbond Posted January 25, 2013 Posted January 25, 2013 I still don't exactly know what the policy means. If it means "no poaching", this is not something new and we have this in India as well. However, if it means not hiring from the other company at all in that case they MUST be investigated.
Clarke Posted January 25, 2013 Posted January 25, 2013 I still don't exactly know what the policy means. If it means "no poaching"' date=' this is not something new and we have this in India as well. However, if it means not hiring from the other company at all in that case they MUST be investigated.[/quote'] Going by what Schmidt replies to Jobs, it does seem to imply no hiring at all.
Crookbond Posted January 25, 2013 Posted January 25, 2013 Going by what Schmidt replies to Jobs' date=' it does seem to imply no hiring at all.[/quote'] Looks like that - I just need an official clarification.
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