A former employee of Oracle has sued the company for allegedly conspiring with Google to prevent poaching of certain categories of managers from each other, in a bid to keep salaries low.Oracle’s restricted hiring agreement with Google was part of a bigger conspiracy by technology companies, located mainly in Silicon Valley, that prevented solicitation of each other’s managers, according to a class action complaint from Greg Garrison, who handled sales of Oracle’s Crystal Ball software from about December 2008 to June 2009.The tech companies put each other’s employees off-limits to other companies by introducing “do-not-cold-call” lists and required companies to inform each other before hiring the other’s employees, according to the complaint Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose division.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here