Disney pays $100 Million from Anti-Poaching Lawsuit created by Industry Animators
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[url]http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-disney-lawsuit-settlement-20170201-story.html[/url]
[quote]The class-action lawsuit was filed by former DreamWorks Animation artist Robert Nitsch Jr. in September 2014. The complaint, lodged in U.S. District Court in San Jose, alleged [B]visual effects and animation companies “conspired to systematically suppress the wages and salaries of those who they claim to prize as their greatest assets — their own workers.”[/B]
The complaint alleged that the practice began in the 1980s when Pixar and Lucasfilm agreed to an anti-poaching pact (before they were owned by Disney), whereby the companies agreed to not “cold call” each other’s employees.[/quote]
[quote]The lawsuit was filed following a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into [B]anti-poaching tactics used by companies including Pixar, Apple, Google and Intel.[/B] The companies settled with the Department of Justice in 2010, agreeing to a prohibition against engaging in anticompetitive no-solicitation agreements.[/quote]
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