A group of big tech companies including Apple, Google, Adobe, and Intel recently settled a lawsuit over their "no poach" agreement for $324 million. The CEOs of those companies had agreed not to do "cold call" recruiting of each others' engineers, until they were busted by the Department of Justice, which saw the deal as an antitrust violation.
The government action was followed up by a class-action lawsuit from the affected workers, who claimed the deal suppressed their wages. That lawsuit settled in April, just before a trial that could have been embarrassing for the tech companies.
One of the lead plaintiffs, a former Adobe employee named Michael Devine, has vocally dissented from the deal. Devine claims the deal is convenient for the lawyers, but an injustice to the workers, who won't get even one percent of their salaries for the period in question.
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