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  • When Rules Don't Apply (2019)
  • Short | 28 min | Documentary, Short
When Rules Don't Apply (2019)
Short | 28 min | Documentary, Short
When Rules Don't Apply explores the "no-poach" wage suppression conspiracy that swept Silicon Valley from 2005 to 2015, and the precedent-setting legal battles that challenged these practices. Leading tech CEOs, including Apple's Steve ...See moreWhen Rules Don't Apply explores the "no-poach" wage suppression conspiracy that swept Silicon Valley from 2005 to 2015, and the precedent-setting legal battles that challenged these practices. Leading tech CEOs, including Apple's Steve Jobs and Google's Eric Schmidt, secretly agreed not to recruit one another's employees, thus restricting employee job opportunities and limiting their wages. The US Department of Justice applied antitrust law in 2009 for the first time on behalf of labor to prosecute the companies involved for their anticompetitive practices. A separate class action lawsuit was filed in 2013 on behalf of 64,000 tech employees for an estimated $3 billion in lost wages. The case was settled for $435 million in 2014. See less
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Theron Yeager
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Updated Apr 10, 2019
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Apr 10, 2019 (United States)

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