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Newly Unsealed Docs in Illegal Wage-Theft Cartel

posted by mrcoolbp on Thursday March 27 2014, @04:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the but-everyone's-doing-it dept.

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!

 
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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by randmcnatt on Thursday March 27 2014, @10:34AM

    by randmcnatt (671) on Thursday March 27 2014, @10:34AM (#22067) Homepage

    Do the courts do anything like this kind of math when deciding damages/fines?

    Judges/juries can assess actual damages, treble damages, and punitive damages. So, yes.

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