Settlements

Settlements Jan 14, 2016

Santa Clara Co. Settles With Family of Roku Engineer Fatally Shot by Deputy in 2013

Click photo to enlarge Brandon Marshall, one of the named plaintiffs in a case against the hiring policies of Silicon Valley companies, died after being shot by sheriff’s deputies in Saratoga on Dec. 10, 2013. SARATOGA — Santa Clara County has reached a $2 million settlement with the family of a despondent Sunnyvale man who was shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy outside Roku headquarters in …

Settlements Jan 14, 2016

The Techtopus: How Silicon Valley’s Most Celebrated CEOs Conspired to Drive Down 100,000 Tech Engineers’ Wages

In early 2005, as demand for Silicon Valley engineers began booming , Apple’s Steve Jobs sealed a secret and illegal pact with Google’s Eric Schmidt to artificially push their workers wages lower by agreeing not to recruit each other’s employees, sharing wage scale information, and punishing violators. On February 27, 2005, Bill Campbell, a member of Apple’s board of directors and senior …