A group of engineers urged a federal judge Wednesday to approve a $34 million settlement with RTX Corp.’s Pratt & Whitney division, resolving claims that the aerospace giant orchestrated a no-hire agreement among five subcontractors to suppress employee wages. This settlement follows a $26.5 million agreement reached earlier this year with the subcontracting firms.
Settlement Terms and Context
The engineers’ motion for preliminary approval asks the court to finalize the deal, which would allocate $34 million to a proposed settlement class comprising thousands of current and former employees. The motion emphasized the extensive negotiations and legal battles preceding the settlement, noting that “hundreds of thousands of documents and detailed compensation data” were analyzed during nearly three years of litigation.
“The settlement agreement was negotiated at arm’s length by highly experienced counsel after almost three years of hard-fought litigation,” the engineers stated, highlighting the avoidance of costs and risks tied to a complex trial.
