DoJ Confirms And Settles Apple/Google Anti-Poaching Deal. Apple And Adobe Had One Too?!

Back in June of last year, a report in The Washington Post stated that the U.S. Department of Justice had begun a probe looking into the hiring�practices�of some of tech's biggest companies. The probe was at its early stages at that point, but they were specifically looking into if any companies had agreements in place not to recruit one another's workers. In August of last year, we reported that two of those companies, Apple and Google,�did have such an agreement in place -- and we even obtained an email that seemed to confirm it. Neither Google nor Apple responded to our request for a comment on the issue. Of course, they couldn't sidestep the DoJ so easily. And today, the government is announcing a settlement on the issue. Specifically, the DoJ is saying it is settling with six companies -- Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, and Pixar -- ensuring that they will not enter into no solicitation agreements for employees going forward. In the complaint and settlement proposal they're filing today, the DoJ is saying their findings indicate that there were agreements in place between a mixture of these companies over the years that prevented poaching. Here's how they outlined it:

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