Raytheon Hit With Antitrust Suits Over Alleged No-Poach Pact (1)

Raytheon Technologies Corp. unit Pratt & Whitney and several other aerospace manufacturers were hit with federal antitrust claims in New Haven, Conn., over their alleged “no poach” pact pledging to refrain from recruiting one another’s engineers or other skilled workers.

The lawsuits, filed Tuesday, target P&W, two Belcan LLC affiliates, Quest Global Services-NA Inc., Cyient Inc., Parametric Solutions Inc., Agilis Engineering Inc., and a half-dozen executives. They come a few days after the Justice Department charged a former P&W manager with criminal antitrust violations.

The scheme, which “operated for nearly a decade,” was “an ideal tool to suppress their ...