Looks like Apple, Google and others will have to put a stop to their handshake deals over not hiring each others employees, thanks to the US Justice Department:
According to the complaint, the six companies entered into agreements that restrained competition between them for highly skilled employees. The agreements between Apple and Google, Apple and Adobe, Apple and Pixar and Google and Intel prevented the companies from directly soliciting each other?s employees. An agreement between Google and Intuit prevented Google from directly soliciting Intuit employees.
?The agreements challenged here restrained competition for affected employees without any procompetitive justification and distorted the competitive process,? said Molly S. Boast, Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice?s Antitrust Division. ?The proposed settlement resolves the department?s antitrust concerns with regard to these no solicitation agreements.?
The government was concerned that the deals prevented employees at the companies involved from getting competitive salary and job offers via ?cold calls? aka poaching or active solicitations.
The proposed settlement between the DOJ and the companies prevents them entering into any no-poaching agreements, or any agreements against cross-hiring, for 5 years.
So we pretty much figure the iOS teams? phones are going to be ringing off the hook from now until 2015, right?
[DOJ, thanks to everyone who sent this in]
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