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Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Judge rejects US$324.5m settlement of tech wage case

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SAN FRAN­CIS­CO–A fed­er­al judge re­ject­ed as too low a US$324.5 mil­lion set­tle­ment of a class-ac­tion law­suit al­leg­ing Google and Ap­ple con­spired with sev­er­al oth­er tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­nies to block their top work­ers from get­ting bet­ter job of­fers.The rul­ing by US Dis­trict Judge Lucy Koh con­cludes the more than 60,000 high-tech work­ers rep­re­sent­ed in the three-year-old law­suit de­serve to be paid more, based on the ev­i­dence in­di­cat­ing their earn­ing pow­er was un­der­mined by the col­lu­sion among their em­ploy­ers.

Koh es­ti­mat­ed that the work­ers should re­ceive at least US$380 mil­lion. At­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing the work­ers orig­i­nal­ly were seek­ing US$3 bil­lion dam­ages be­fore set­tling for about ten per cent of that amount in a deal reached in April. The set­tle­ment would have been paid by Ap­ple, Google Inc, In­tel Corp and Adobe Sys­tems Inc. The suit al­leged they and three oth­er com­pa­nies–In­tu­it Inc, Pixar An­i­ma­tion and Lu­cas­film–se­cret­ly agreed not to re­cruit each oth­er's work­ers dur­ing var­i­ous junc­tures from 2005 to 2009.

AP


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