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News Oct 19, 2016

Wage-Fixing Scheme Will Cost DreamWorks $50M

Hollywood heavyweight DreamWorks said it’s willing to pay $50 million to settle claims that it colluded with other studios to fix the wages of animators. DreamWorks filed a motion for a preliminary settlement in Federal Court on Monday, agreeing to pay a class of animation workers the largest sum to date in a case that implicates nearly all of the studios that create …

Settlements Oct 18, 2016

Animation Workers Reach $50 Million Settlement With DreamWorks Animation

A settlement has been reached between a group of animation workers and DreamWorks Animation in a class action lawsuit alleging that DreamWorks and other companies violated antitrust laws by conspiring to set animation wages via nonpoaching agreements. According to documents filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose on Monday, the settlement provides for a cash payment of $50 million to a …