Google goes after self-driving car engineer

[Newsfeed]

Google goes after self-driving car engineer

[Bloomberg]

 

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Google’s arbitration complaint isn’t focused on the technology. Instead, it asserts that Levandowski secretly used “confidential information regarding the unique skills, experiences and compensation packages” of Google employees to induce some to join Otto.

I wonder if those "experiences" include mandatory diversity training and unconscious bias testing.

Anyway, that is going to be as difficult as anything to prove. What are Google going to say? That Levandowski knows Google doesn't pay particularly well in some areas? And that he told Uber of this?

California has a strong public policy encouraging employee mobility and allowing workers to move freely between companies. However, all employees remain bound by a duty of loyalty, said Jim Pooley, an intellectual property lawyer based in Silicon Valley.

Is knowing how much your colleagues get paid now intellectual property?