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Labor/Employment

Apr. 1, 2015

No-poach deal gets new objector

A Google software engineer claims his cut of the $415 million settlement is paltry compared to what he allegedly lost due to Silicon Valley hiring practices.


By Matthew Blake


Daily Journal Staff Writer


After pressuring Silicon Valley's biggest companies to pay roughly 64,000 technology employees a larger settlement for conspiring against them, U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh got a letter on Friday from a software engineer at Google Inc. urging her to reject the revised deal.


Koh gave preliminary approval to a $415 million settlement in the epic antitrust battle earlier this month after rejectin...

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