A collection of aerospace companies has agreed to settle with workers who alleged that the companies engaged in an illegal no-poach agreement with one company, Cyient Inc., set to pay $7.4 million, according to court documents filed Wednesday.
The news represents the latest development in a nearly three-year-long dispute before the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.
In 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice sued a former executive at Raytheon subsidiary Pratt & Whitney, alleging that he participated in a “long-running conspiracy” with managers and executives at outsource engineering suppliers to restrict hiring and recruiting of the companies’ engineers and other skilled workers.
