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An email from Steve Jobs to the CEO of Adobe in 2005 (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, agreed. Say only what you need to, let the implications do their own work.

[โ€“] GorGor@startrek.website 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

yeah, why be explicit about the illegal collusion.

[โ€“] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is it illegal to agree not to recruit each other's workers? I'd be kinda surprised.

[โ€“] jet@hackertalks.com 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Very much illegal. It's a form of labor wage control

Imagine once you get a FAANG job you cant get another job offer from a different FAANG company, now your stuck, no price bidding, no ladder hopping, no finding a new job when your unhappy

[โ€“] sxan@midwest.social 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It is not illegal. Companies can agree to not recruit - an activity initiated by recruiters - from each other. Now, if they agreed to not hire each other's employees, that would be a violation of right-to-work.

He nowhere says he has a rule to not hire Adobe employees; he's saying he has a rule that his recruiters can't use Adobe's employee org chart as a shopping menu. That's completely legal.

[โ€“] GorGor@startrek.website 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't think that is accurate. I am not a lawyer but I believe that it is collusion between competitors with the intent to manipulate the labor market.

[โ€“] scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I feel like that's the exact sort of loophole the U.S government would choose not to address for convenience, of course.

[โ€“] GorGor@startrek.website 2 points 3 days ago

Oh! Enforcement is a joke, no doubt, but that doesn't mean it is legal, just makes the government work hard for it and since they were strapped (now scrapped), they don't pursue action against these fuckers.