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In-Home Nursing Agency Executive Convicted By Nevada Federal Jury In The Department Of Justice’s First Victory In A Wage-Fixing...

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On April 14, 2025, a federal jury in Nevada convicted a home healthcare nursing executive on one count of conspiracy to fix wages and five counts of wire fraud after a 15-day trial. The verdict represents the DOJ’s first...more

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DOJ Antitrust Division Not Backing Down on Labor

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​​​​​​​Despite back-to-back losses in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) first-ever criminal no-poach and wage-fixing cases, the Antitrust Division (the Division) is not backing down from its enforcement focus on labor. In...more

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DOJ Cracks Down on Alleged Wage Fixing and No Poach Agreements

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On January 28, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its indictment of four owners or managers of home health care agencies for allegedly violating federal antitrust laws by conspiring to fix the rates paid to...more

The Volkov Law Group

Antitrust Division Indicts Four Individuals for Wage Fixing in Labor Markets (Part III of III)

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Criminal antitrust is burning a path in prosecuting illegal wage-fixing agreements in labor markets.  The Justice Department warned companies over five years ago and now DOJ is executing on its warning.  Over the last two...more

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District Court Upholds Criminal Antitrust Charges for Labor Price-Fixing

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The Antitrust Division won a preliminary skirmish against two co-defendants who challenged the criminal indictment against them charging price-fixing in the labor market. District Court Judge Mazzant, in the Eastern District...more

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Antitrust Division Charges Health Care Staffing Company with Criminal Wage-Fixing and No-Poaching Agreement

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The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division is pushing criminal enforcement against companies for illegal wage-fixing among competitors in the hiring market. ...more

Mintz - Antitrust Viewpoints

Staffing Company Criminally Indicted for Targeting School Nurses in Wage-Fixing and No-Poach Scheme

The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced yesterday a criminal indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Las Vegas, Nevada charging a health care staffing company and its former manager of entering into and engaging in...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

DOJ Brings First Criminal Challenges to Wage-Fixing and No-Poach Agreements

More than four years after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) jointly released the Antitrust Guidance for Human Resource Professionals in 2016 (Antitrust Guidance), the DOJ has...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Employers Beware: Recent Criminal Antitrust Cases Involving Wage Suppression and No-Poach Agreements

The Department of Justice Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) has recently announced two indictments alleging criminal antitrust violations against employers involving wage negotiation and no-poach theories. The cases, which...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Less Than a Month After DOJ Brings Its First Wage-Fixing Indictment, DOJ Brings Its First “No-Poach” Indictment

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In the past month, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has made good on its 2016 threat, contained in its Antitrust Guidance for Human Resource Professionals (“Antitrust Guidance”) to bring criminal charges against people or...more

Cooley LLP

Alert: DOJ Criminally Prosecutes First No-Poach Agreement on Heels of First Criminal Wage‑Fixing Indictment

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After years of foreshadowing, the DOJ has made true on its promise to criminally prosecute “no-poach agreements,” announcing on January 7, 2021, that a grand jury indicted Surgical Care Affiliates LLC (SCA), a unit of...more

Morgan Lewis

DOJ Antitrust Division Brings First Criminal Wage-Fixing Case: Continuing Enforcement on Labor Market Issues

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A federal grand jury in Texas indicted the owner of a therapist staffing company on wage-fixing charges on December 9. Although this is the US Department of Justice’s first criminal wage-fixing prosecution, the indictment...more

King & Spalding

DOJ Brings First Criminal Wage Fixing Complaint

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On December 10, 2020, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictment of Neeraj Jindal, a former owner of a therapist staffing company, for a criminal conspiracy to fix wages paid to physical...more

Mintz - Antitrust Viewpoints

DOJ Announces Indictment of Former Owner of Health Care Staffing Company for Wage Fixing

Yesterday the Department of Justice announced that a federal grand jury indicted Neeraj Jindal, the former owner of a therapist staffing company in north Texas, for his participation in a conspiracy to fix the wages of...more

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