A Connecticut federal court has approved a $34 million settlement resolving a four-year class action claiming that RTX Corp.’s Pratt & Whitney division illegally conspired with five aerospace engineering firms not to hire each other’s engineers. This follows on the workers’ $26.5 million settlement with the five other firms. Out of the $60.5 million settlement fund, one-third ($20.1 million) will go to the plaintiff’s lawyers as legal fees, and $2.6 million in litigation expenses will be reimbursed.
The lawsuit alleged that Pratt & Whitney and the other companies restricted hiring “so that they could pay these high-skilled employees less than they would be paid in a competitive market.” Under the deal, thousands of workers whose wages were illegally suppressed will get a pro rata share of the net settlement fund. (Borozny v. RTX Corp., Pratt & Whitney Division, 3:21-cv-01657, D. Conn.)
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