You don’t often hear complaints about working for Apple, Google, Intel, Lucasfilm, Adobe, Intuit or Pixar. But according to plaintiffs lawyers at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein; Berger & Montague; and Grant & Eisenhofer, employees at the septet of tech powerhouses were the victims of a conspiracy to suppress their salaries and keep them tied down at their jobs. And on Wednesday, San Jose U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh ruled that the lawyers had come up with enough evidence to allow their case to move forward.
In a 29-page decision, Koh refused to dismiss a proposed antitrust class action against all seven companies, ruling that “it strains credulity” that the defendants would develop nearly identical “Do Not Cold Call” agreements to restrict recruiting without some coordination.
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