Court: Workers can sue Apple, Google, others in wage dispute
Source: CNet
Apple, Google, Adobe, Intel, and other companies will have to battle a class action lawsuit from around 60,000 disgruntled workers.
Late Tuesday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld last October's ruling by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh that paved the way for a lawsuit against companies accused of conspiring to fix wages by agreeing not to poach employees. The appeals court's decision affirms the right of the workers to pursue their lawsuit as a group, according to Reuters.
If successful, a class action lawsuit can saddle the defendants with a higher penalty than if each of the plaintiffs sued individually. In this case, the tech companies could find themselves collectively hit with up to $9 billion in damages.
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