April 06, 2023
A supplier to Raytheon Technologies Corp.'s Pratt & Whitney division has admitted that it "voluntarily participated" in a no-poaching agreement among several aerospace companies, but it denied that it knew the deal was illegal and fought several damages demands in a recent filing.
March 07, 2023
Raytheon Technologies Corp.'s Pratt & Whitney division has denied all wrongdoing in a proposed class action over an alleged no-poaching scheme, saying that any employment actions it undertook were lawful ways to further its "legitimate business interests."
February 14, 2023
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked a Connecticut federal judge to reconsider a portion of a ruling in a putative class action accusing Raytheon Technologies Corp.'s Pratt & Whitney division of secretly agreeing with other companies not to recruit or hire its talent in the aerospace sector.
January 23, 2023
A proposed antitrust class action against Raytheon Technologies Corp.'s Pratt & Whitney division and several of its aerospace subcontractors can continue, a Connecticut federal court ruled, rejecting the companies' bid to toss out allegations that they worked together to restrict hiring and suppress salaries.
July 11, 2022
Raytheon Technologies asked a Connecticut federal judge to dismiss a proposed antitrust class action accusing the defense contractor of taking part in an illegal conspiracy to restrict the hiring and recruiting of engineers and skilled laborers working on aerospace projects.
March 15, 2022
A Connecticut federal judge has selected law firms DiCello Levitt Gutzler LLC, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, and local Connecticut law firms Hurwitz Sagarin Slossberg & Knuff LLC and Garrison Levin-Epstein Fitzgerald & Pirrotti PC to serve as interim class counsel in an antitrust case workers brought against Raytheon Technologies and other aerospace firms.
December 15, 2021
Workers hit Raytheon Technologies and other aerospace firms with two putative antitrust class actions Tuesday in Connecticut federal court amid the U.S. Department of Justice's ongoing probe, claiming the firms engaged in anti-competitive practices for nearly a decade by agreeing not to poach competitors' workers.