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Wage and Hour Wage-Fixing Enforcement Actions

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Passing the Laboring Oar? What’s to Come for No-Poach and Wage-Fixing Prosecutions

It’s been two years since the Antitrust Division brought its most recent — and only pending — criminal case involving labor markets. The two-year pause may be telling. It could indicate that prosecutors are picking and...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Competition authorities crackdown on employment markets: a new era for cartels

At the end of last year, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) secured a guilty plea for wage fixing, resulting in its first criminal conviction with Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter saying: “[t]oday’s guilty plea...more

Polsinelli

DOJ Faces Two Strikeouts in First Health Care Wage-Fixing and “No Poach” Prosecutions

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On April 14, 2022, a Texas jury returned five not-guilty verdicts on six charges considered in the first federal criminal wage-fixing prosecution. A day later, on April 15, 2022, a Colorado federal jury entirely acquitted...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Antitrust Enforcers Continue March to Protect Labor Markets in Health Care and Other Industries

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On January 28, 2022, a federal grand jury in Maine returned an indictment charging four managers of home health care agencies with participating in a conspiracy to suppress the wages and restrict the job mobility of Personal...more

Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C.

DOJ Brings Criminal Enforcement Actions related to No-Poaching and Wage-Fixing Agreements

Employers who have entered into “no-poaching” agreements may find themselves criminally indicted for violating U.S. antitrust laws. Following up on previously issued guidance from the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

DOJ Brings First Criminal “No-Poach” and “Wage-Fixing” Prosecutions; New Focus on Labor Market Prosecutions

What happened? The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) announced that, on January 5, 2021, a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging Surgical Care Affiliates LLC and its related entity...more

Perkins Coie

DoJ Employee "No-Poach" Antitrust Consent Decree Sharpens Compliance Teeth

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) filed a complaint recently alleging that competing railroad equipment manufacturers Knorr-Bremse AG, Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation (Wabtec) and Faiveley Transport S.A....more

Morgan Lewis

FTC and DOJ Issue Antitrust Guidance for HR Professionals

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The DOJ will now treat wage-fixing and no-poaching agreements criminally. On October 20, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued guidance (the Guidance) signaling that they will bring...more

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