High-Tech Employee Class Action Settlement Checks Mailed

Apple, Google, Pixar and other high-tech software engineers are reporting that they are receiving checks in the mail from a class action settlement that accused multiple companies of having a secret agreement not to recruit techs from other companies in order to keep salaries artificially low.

According to our Top Class Actions readers, the high-tech employee settlement checks were mailed out on Dec. 21 and are worth as much as $4,160.

If you filed a claim for the high-tech employee antitrust class action lawsuit settlement, keep checking your mailbox because your payout may be arriving soon!

Top Class Actions has been following the high-tech antitrust class action lawsuit against Apple, Google, Pixar, Intel, Intuit, Lucasfilm and Adobe since 2012.

The initial complaint filed by five software engineers alleged that these technology companies secretly agreed not to hire or poach software engineers from each others’ businesses in a conspiracy that led to a 10 to 15 percent salary reduction.

The high-tech employee antitrust settlement was open to tech professionals who worked for any of the seven named companies in positions such as Software Engineer, Hardware Engineer, Component Designer, Application Developers, Programmer, and Product Developer. The anti-poaching settlement was expected to affect about 64,000 Class Members.

A settlement of $415 million was approved of by a California federal judge after she previously rejected an initial settlement offer of $325 million.

The tech companies do not admit to any wrongdoing, but agreed to settle this anti-poaching class action lawsuit in order to avoid the of further litigation.

The deadline to file a claim for the high-tech employee class action settlement has passed. However, the Settlement Administrator has issued the following update on the litigation website:

On September 2, 2015, the court entered an order approving the settlement. The Court’s settlement approval order became final on October 5, 2015. The Court-appointed settlement administrator (Gilardi & Co., LLC) distributed the settlement to class members the week of December 21st, 2015. Questions regarding the settlement distribution should be directed to Gilardi & Co., LLC, at 1-888-285-0335 or info@hightechemployeelawsuit.com.

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The software engineers are represented by Kelly M. Dermody, Richard M. Heimann, Brendan P. Glackin, Dean M. Harvey and Anne B. Shaver of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP, Joseph R. Saveri and James G. Dallal of Joseph Saveri Law Firm Inc., Eric L. Cramer, Sarah Rebecca Schalman-Bergen of Shanon Jude Carson of Berger & Montague PC, Peter A. Barile III and Robert G. Eisler of Grant & Eisenhofer PA and Christina H. Sharp, Daniel C. Girard and Elizabeth Antonia Kramer of Girard Gibbs LLP.

The Tech Company Anti-poaching Class Action Lawsuit is In re: High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation, Case No. 5:11-cv-02509, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

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