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US: Former Google exec, current Facebook COO Sandberg may testify against former employer

By  |  April 3, 2013

Sheryl Sandberg, former vice president of global sales and operations at Google and current Chief Operating Officer at Facebook is reportedly being tapped for a case against tech giants including Google, Apple and Intel. The case is a civil suit filed in 2011 by five workers claiming the companies made non-poaching agreements, colluding to agree not to hire each others employees to keep wages down. While the case has not yet been certified as a class action, US District Judge Lucy H. Koh will preside over the case in which court filings included Sandberg’s employment agreement with Google. Sandberg is not named as a defendant in the case.

 

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