Lucasfilm settles DoJ suit over hiring practices (VAR, WSJ)
By Nancy Tartaglione
Lucasfilm has settled a lawsuit over hiring practices with the Deptartment of Justice which had filed a complaint calling on the company to stop entering into "anticompetitive" agreements with Pixar that the DoJ said restricted employee recruitment. Pixar was not named as a defendant in the complaint as it had agreed a settlement with the DoJ in September.
Per Variety, the DoJ asserts that Lucasfilm and Pixar agreed not to cold-call each other's employees with job offers, to notify each other when offering an employee a job, and not to counter-offer when such an offer was made.
"The agreement between Lucasfilm and Pixar restrained competition for digital animators without any pro-competitive justification and distorted the competitive process," said Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney before the settlements.
The settlement prohibits both companies "entering, maintaining or enforcing any agreement that prevents any person from soliciting, cold-calling, recruiting or competing for employees."
Court documents indicate that Lucasfilm did not admit any wrongdoing as part of the settlement, The Wall Street Journal noted.
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