High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation

High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation
CourtU.S. District Court, N.D. California
DecidedSeptember 2, 2015
ClaimAntitrust, unfair competition
Outcome
$435 million settlement
Court membership
Judge sittingLucy H. Koh

High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation is a 2010 U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust action and a 2013 civil class action against several Silicon Valley companies for alleged "no cold call" and no-poaching agreements which restrained the recruitment of high-tech employees.

The defendants were high-technology companies Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay, each of which was headquartered in Silicon Valley, in the southern San Francisco Bay Area of California.

The civil suit was filed by five plaintiffs. It accused the tech companies of collusion between 2005 and 2009 to refrain from recruiting each other's employees.

A 2025 study found that this collusion reduced wages at the colluding firms by 5.6%, reduced stock bonuses for employees, and led to worse job satisfaction.

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