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On Wednesday, US District Judge Lucy Koh granted preliminary approval for a settlement between four top tech companies—Apple, Google, Adobe, and Intel—and their former employees. The employees launched a class action suit against the companies after the Justice Department sued the top tech firms for anti-competitive labor practices in 2010.
The Justice Department had accused Apple, Google, and other top tech firms of agreeing not to approach each others’ engineers with better employment offers. The employees estimated that they collectively lost out on $3 billion in wages because competing companies would not give them better offers.
Employees of Apple, Google, Adobe, and Intel pursued a larger settlement [...]. Originally, lawyers for the two sides agreed to a $324.5 million settlement for the employees. But with 64,000 former employees looking to reclaim lost wages, that amounted to a paltry $5,000 per person. Freelance programmer and representative plaintiff Michael Devine protested the agreement his side’s lawyers agreed to, and Judge Koh agreed with him, calling the settlement "below the range of reasonableness.”
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2015, @07:28PM
Will you please stop repeating that fallacy about H1B's... Have you been through the H1B process? No? I have... yes I have... And it's nothing like what you people make it out to be...
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 05 2015, @07:57PM
> Have you been through the H1B process? No? I have
Hey AC, congratulations on being the exception.
Don't be the fool who thinks that because they are lucky everyone else is too.
The top ten employers of H1B visa holders, [npr.org] accounting for roughly half the visas, use them in the process of off-shoring.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday March 06 2015, @08:37AM
You aren't from India right? ;)