How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired against their own workers

Re:How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired aga... by jammygit on Monday April 15, 2019 @02:24PM (#19667544)

Transfer of liability? There are candid emails between Steve jobs and Schmidt about the topic.

Edit: They made a minor settlement and there was a lawsuit that got a tiny amount of press.

http://time.com/42322/steve-jobs-chilling-response-after-get...

Edit 2: there was not even a slap on the wrist legally speaking:

"The proposed settlement, which if accepted by the court will be in effect for five years, prohibits the companies from engaging in anticompetitive no solicitation agreements. "

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Re:How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired aga... by deogeo on Monday April 15, 2019 @02:33PM (#19667632)

...am I understanding it correctly that their 'punishment' was having to promise not to break the law again? But only for five years??

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Re:How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired aga... by FireBeyond on Monday April 15, 2019 @03:33PM (#19668179)

Yes. They'll get a "harder" slap if they do it in the next five years (if caught), but after that are free to do so with baseline "penalties" (again, if caught).

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Re:How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired aga... by thatoneuser on Monday April 15, 2019 @08:15PM (#19670003)

"Don't be evil"

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Re:How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired aga... by animal531 on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @04:19AM (#19671997)

Yeah that's ridiculous. A real penalty would be for example to not allow them to appoint new employees for 5 years.

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Re:How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired aga... by PunksATawnyFill on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @04:53AM (#19672141)

Jobs was a liar. He also said no engineers were laid off from Pro Apps, when in fact half of Pro Apps engineers were fired at the end of the 2000s.

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