General Dynamics Faces Class Action Over No-Poach Agreements (1)

A unit of General Dynamics Corp. has been hit with an antitrust suit alleging the company engaged in an unlawful agreement with other government contractors to restrict recruiting naval engineers and suppress wages.

Plaintiffs Susan Scharpf and Anthony D’Armiento, former naval architects, allege in their proposed class action that General Dynamics Information Technology Inc. violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act, which prohibits agreements in restraints of trade, by engaging in a “long-standing and unwritten ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ not to affirmatively recruit” naval engineers from each of the defendants, according to a complaint filed last week in the US District Court ...