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.
U.K.-based Faststream Recruitment Ltd. negotiated a deal to end its involvement in the proposed class action brought by former naval engineers, according to a notice filed Monday in Virginia federal court. The notice followed a judge’s order seeking clarification as to the status of the settlement.
In the order, which was also filed Monday, U.S. District Judge Anthony J. Trenga noted Faststream and the naval engineers first mentioned a settlement in March 2024. But the deal was rendered moot after the case was tossed for being time-barred in April 2024.
. . .
Scharpf and D’Armiento are represented by Brent W. Johnson, Zachary R. Glubiak, Steven J. Toll, Robert W. Cobbs, Alison S. Deich and Sabrina S. Merold of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Shana E. Scarlett, Rio S. Pierce, Steve W. Berman and Elaine T. Byszewski of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, George F. Farah, Nicholas J. Jackson and Simon Wiener of Handley Farah & Anderson PLLC, Candice J. Enders and Julia R. McGrath of Berger Montague PC and Brian D. Clark, Arielle S. Wagner and Stephen J. Teti of Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLLP.
Read Maritime Recruiter Settles Naval Engineers’ No-Poach Claims.