Anonymous Coward writes:
In a follow up to our story a few days ago, Newly unsealed documents from Google and Apple further prove their complicity in a secret illegal agreement to limit employees' careers and wages. Some background on this cartel is available in another article covering the US Department of Justice investigation into this matter earlier this week. When these companies were caught red-handed, blatantly breaking the law, the US government intervened on workers' behalf by asking the companies to, in effect, "please stop doing this," but the proposed settlement will only "be in effect" for the next five years.
Go justice!
(Score: 5, Interesting) by people on Thursday March 27 2014, @05:57AM
Let's say that the companies involved in this illegal cartel saved $x by keeping wages down. Supposedly one would get away with this sort of thing at least 2/3 of the time. They would then have to be made to pay 3 * $x to get to the point where a rational sociopath is indifferent to committing the crime. To give an incentive not to cheat the penalty would have to be larger, say 2 * 3 * $x. Do the courts do anything like this kind of math when deciding damages/fines?
Also, I don't feel like buying a Tesla right now.
(Score: 4, Informative) by randmcnatt on Thursday March 27 2014, @10:34AM
Judges/juries can assess actual damages, treble damages, and punitive damages. So, yes.
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