Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe have reached settlement in a lawsuit that was filed by more than 64,000 employees. The tech would be with mutual agreements salaries artificially low.
According to the indictment have Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe the forbidden salarisafspraken made to prevent the workers from each other, compete. The more than 64,000 employees demanded in a class action lawsuit for a compensation of 3 billion dollars, or almost 2.2 billion euros. By the arrangement that has been void the lawsuit.
Reuters news agency reports that the four tech in the arrangement that has been 324 million dollars, converted to 234 million euros, will distribute. They have Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe have a potential miljardenboete escape. As the court also cartel proven would have considered, had he, in addition to the required $ 3 billion compensation for damages a fine of up to $ 9 billion may be imposed.
The indictment against the four tech was primarily based on a number of e-mails among former Google ceo Eric Schmidt and the late Apple founder Steve Jobs. In an e-mail to Jobs let Schmidt know, for example, that a recruiter from Google would be fired after he an Apple employee a job at the search giant had offered. Also would Schmidt to a hiring manager have requested for the secret events only verbally, with other parties to communicate.
Apple, Google and Intel would not comment on the matter. An employee of Adobe said that his company’s competition law has not been violated, and that the settlement is taken to be the uncertainty of a lawsuit to avoid and to reduce further legal costs.
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