http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/l ... ices-23396
Details at above link...
Basically, LFL and Pixar were in a war to acquire computer animators and software engineers.
Apparently, LFL was promising higher pay than Pixar's offers.
How this violates capitalistic standards and such I have no idea.
I thought we had free markets where we allowed people to succeed, OR be stupid and fall on their own swords!
Welcome to Socialist America!
May it die quickly...!
I wish the DOJ had stayed out of this... I don't see where this violates the existing laws, period... If somebody wants to leave for another company after being offered more money, let them AFTER they fulfill the conditions of their existing contracts with the company they're currently working for!
LucasFilm reaches settlement with DOJ...
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It's a poorly written article since it never details the actual allegations. Assuming this is related to the lawsuit earlier this year mentioned in the piece, the problem was the companies had made an agreement NOT to try to hire away each others employees. Companies colluding like that hurts employee chances to get better and higer paying jobs so the DOJ stepped in.
What doesn't make sense is why the settlement sounds basically like what they were accused of doing!
What doesn't make sense is why the settlement sounds basically like what they were accused of doing!
As part of the settlement, the department said that Lucasfilm and its rival Pixar agreed not to cold call each other’s employees and agreed to notify each other when making an offer to an employee of the other company.
The settlement also bars Lucasfilm from giving employees a counter offer that is more valuable than the competing company's offer.
They sure didn't make THOSE points clear in the article, James... Yeah, bad writing. Too bad Basic Journalism 101 doesn't get taught anymore!
I still don't see why the federal government has to get involved in this.
Where is California's state government on this? Oh, I forgot, they're trying to pay off all the union workers and figure out how to scam the people of California for more tax money for the millionth time... They can't afford to pay their stateworker pension fund!
The total California stateworker pension fund is half a trillion dollars in THE HOLE and they elected the same idiot governor who helped start that mess in the 1970s.
I still don't see why the federal government has to get involved in this.
Where is California's state government on this? Oh, I forgot, they're trying to pay off all the union workers and figure out how to scam the people of California for more tax money for the millionth time... They can't afford to pay their stateworker pension fund!
The total California stateworker pension fund is half a trillion dollars in THE HOLE and they elected the same idiot governor who helped start that mess in the 1970s.