Silicon Valley workers may pursue collusion case as group

Re:Silicon Valley workers may pursue collusion case as group by redwood on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @08:07PM (#7067390)

The problem with laws like this is they're very difficult to prove because you can create fairly arbitrary criteria for what you want in an employee and claim that one of those things you want is for them not to have been significantly molded by a different large bureaucratic entity with its own culture and processes.

It's trivial to prove this is going on, but what I mean is: difficult to reach the legal burden of proof of collusion.

Also ultimately a law suit like this will send $$$ -> lawyers more than anyone else.

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Re:Silicon Valley workers may pursue collusion case as group by mikeyouse on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @08:14PM (#7067415)

> The problem with laws like this is they're very difficult to prove

Not when the DOJ has subpoena power.

After a Google recruiter reached out to an Apple engineer, Steve Jobs in an email to Eric Schmidt:

    "I would be very pleased if your recruiting department would
    stop doing this,"

Schmidt, forwarding that email to his team:

    "Can you get this stopped and let me know why this is happening?"

Google's Staffing Director:

    "[The recruiter who contacted the Apple Employee] will be terminated within
    the hour."

    "Please extend my apologies as appropriate to Steve Jobs."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/27/us-apple-lawsuit-i...

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