October 28, 2025
A Virginia federal magistrate judge ordered a naval engineer to name all the witnesses her attorneys spoke to, and all the information about those interviews, as the nation's largest military shipbuilders seek to argue she's too late to accuse them of agreeing not to poach each other's workers.
October 23, 2025
One of the naval engineers suing the nation's largest military shipbuilders over an alleged no-poach agreement said she's already identified 20 witnesses and produced more than 3,000 pages of documents in discovery, but the companies are still asking for attorney work product in their latest demands.
September 16, 2025
A maritime jobs recruitment company has settled claims it participated in an illegal no-poach conspiracy to suppress wages among some of the country's biggest warship makers and naval engineering consultants, court records show.
August 26, 2025
A Fourth Circuit decision that revived a proposed class action accusing some of the country's biggest warship makers and naval engineering consultants of participating in an illegal no-poach conspiracy to suppress wages leaves a Virginia federal judge free to dismiss the case, according to the companies.
July 24, 2025
A proposed class of naval engineers suing the nation's major military shipbuilders and contractors over an alleged no-poach wage-fixing scheme may have a new named plaintiff to bring to the case.
May 21, 2024
A pair of naval engineers are challenging a Virginia federal judge's decision to toss their proposed class action accusing a collection of shipbuilding military contractors of entering into secret "no-poach" agreements, asking the Fourth Circuit to take up their appeal in a new filing.
April 22, 2024
A Virginia federal court found that a pair of warship designers haven't shown that major shipbuilders for the U.S. military, including General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls Industries, concealed a "gentlemen's agreement" to not poach workers from one another.
October 10, 2023
A pair of former warship designers filed a proposed class action in Virginia federal court against two major shipbuilders for the U.S. military, General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls Industries, and other companies allegedly involved in a decades-long conspiracy to suppress their wages through a no-poach "gentlemen's agreement."