Java.lang.NoSuchMethodError scala.Predef $ .ArrowAssoc (Ljava / lang / Object;) Ljava / lang / Object;

Having received the following error while running oozie job, we migrated java jdk 1.8 from 1.7 and compilation was successful.

Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: scala.Predef$.ArrowAssoc(Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/lang/Object;
        at com.twitter.scalding.RichXHandler$.<init>(XHandler.scala:38)
        at com.twitter.scalding.RichXHandler$.<clinit>(XHandler.scala)
        at com.twitter.scalding.Tool$.main(Tool.scala:152)
        at com.twitter.scalding.Tool.main(Tool.scala)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
        at org.apache.oozie.action.hadoop.JavaMain.run(JavaMain.java:56)