What companies including +Google, +Adobe, Apple, Intel and others did is essentially price fixing. They created an illegal cartel that limited the mobility of employees and thus their ability to demand higher salaries for their work. Hopefully, Judge Koh will find for the plaintiffs and hit these companies hard.
Workers in Silicon Valley no-hire scandal granted class-action status
Programmers and other technical employees whose wages were allegedly kept artificially low by widespread no-hire pacts between Apple, Google, Adobe, and Intel are being granted class action…
Yikes. I don't trust Judge Koh to do anything right when it comes to the field of technology or anything even vaguely related to it.