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Wait, what, you received a damages payment because a company wouldn't interview you?
by estomagordo 7y ago
Wait, what, you received a damages payment because a company wouldn't interview you?
- ceejayoz 7y agoBecause a company illegally colluded with their competitors not to interview them. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-google-settlement/apple-google-intel-adobe-to-pay-325-million-to-settle-hiring-lawsuit-idUSBREA4M0MY20140523 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-google-settlement/a...
- twinge 7y agoInterviews were allowed, but recruiters weren't allowed to make the initial contact with employees.
- ceejayoz 7y agoGiven the high level attention involved - direct emails between Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt - I'd fully expect that policy to bleed over into "don't interview/hire" to avoid any appearance of having recruited them.
- burkaman 7y agoIn a class action lawsuit, where the company was accused of conspiring with several other companies to keep wages artificially low.
- CoolGuySteve 7y agoI received damages because I was employed by one of the companies found guilty in the conspiracy. The settlement was so low that the judge threw it out initially. The fact that they didn’t interview me is just the real outcome of their policy. They called me, unprompted, about 2 months after I left Apple.
- estomagordo 7y agoThanks, all, for clarifying. Still not sure I think it sounds entirely reasonable. But makes a lot more sense to me now. (Am not American).
- CydeWeys 7y agoIf you aren't given consideration for a job solely because of illegal reasons, then you have legitimate damages.
- estomagordo 7y agoSure. Kind of hard to know why you aren't being invited to an interview though.