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High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation involves a 2010 United States Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust action and a 2013 civil class action against several Silicon Valley companies for alleged "no cold call” agreements which restrained the recruitment of high-tech employees. The defendants are Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay, all high-technology companies with a principal place of business in the San Francisco-Silicon Valley area of California. The civil class action which was filed by five plaintiffs, one of whom has died, accused the tech companies of collusion to not recruit one another's employees between 2005 and 2009. == "No cold call" agreements == Cold calling is one of the main methods used by companies in the high-technology sector to recruit employees with advanced and specialised skills, such as software and hardware engineers, programmers, animators, digital artists, Web developers and other technical professionals. Cold calling involves communicating directly in any manner with another firm's employee who has not otherwise applied for a job opening. Cold calling may be done in person, by phone, letter, or email. Cold calling is an effective method of recruitment for the high-technology sector because "employees of other () companies are often unresponsive to other recruiting strategies... () current satisfied employees tend to be more qualified, harder working, and more stable than those who are actively looking for employment."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Complaint, Hariharan v. Adobe Systems Inc., et al )〕 The challenged "no cold call" agreements are alleged bilateral agreements between high technology companies not to cold call each other's employees. The DOJ alleges that Senior executives at each company negotiated to have their employees added to 'no call' lists maintained by human resources personnel or in company hiring manuals. The alleged agreements were not limited by geography, job function, product group, or time period. The alleged bilateral agreements were between: (1) Apple and Google, (2) Apple and Adobe, (3) Apple and Pixar, (4) Google and Intel, (5) Google and Intuit,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Complaint, US v. Adobe Systems Inc., et al )〕 and (6) Lucasfilm and Pixar. The civil class action further alleges that agreements also existed to (1) "provide notification when making an offer to another ()'s employee (without the knowledge or consent of the employee)" and (2) "agreements that, when offering a position to another company's employee, neither company would counteroffer above the initial offer."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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