Seven technology companies will be facing lawsuits as they violated laws "by entering into agreements not to recruit each other’s employees"..
The damages caused by this case could cost hundreds of millions of dollars!
As reported by Bloomberg:
U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh in San Jose, California, said yesterday that even if she dismisses some claims, she will give the plaintiffs a chance to amend their complaint and re- file it.
The other 5 companies are:
According to Reuters:
The 2007 email from Jobs to Schmidt was disclosed on Friday in the course of civil litigation against Apple Inc, Google Inc and five other technology companies. The proposed class action, brought by five software engineers, accuses the companies of conspiring to keep employee compensation low by eliminating competition for skilled labor.
Furthermore, someone at Google tried to recruit an Apple Engineer, so Apple's Steve Jobs sent an email to Google's Eric Schmidt, which he then did forward to someone at Google to fulfill Steve's request:
The damages caused by this case could cost hundreds of millions of dollars!
As reported by Bloomberg:
U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh in San Jose, California, said yesterday that even if she dismisses some claims, she will give the plaintiffs a chance to amend their complaint and re- file it.
The other 5 companies are:
- Intel Corp. (INTC)
- Adobe Systems Inc. (ADBE)
- Walt Disney Co. (DIS)’s Pixar animation unit
- Intuit Inc. (INTU)
- Lucasfilm Ltd.
Steve Jobs to Google: Stop poaching my Engineers!
According to Reuters:
The 2007 email from Jobs to Schmidt was disclosed on Friday in the course of civil litigation against Apple Inc, Google Inc and five other technology companies. The proposed class action, brought by five software engineers, accuses the companies of conspiring to keep employee compensation low by eliminating competition for skilled labor.
Furthermore, someone at Google tried to recruit an Apple Engineer, so Apple's Steve Jobs sent an email to Google's Eric Schmidt, which he then did forward to someone at Google to fulfill Steve's request:
"I would be very pleased if your recruiting department would stop doing this," Jobs wrote.
Schmidt forwarded Job's email onto other, undisclosed recipients.
"Can you get this stopped and let me know why this is happening?" Schmidt wrote.
Google's staffing director responded that the employee who contacted the Apple engineer "will be terminated within the hour."
He added: "Please extend my apologies as appropriate to Steve Jobs."
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