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Labour related agreements in the European Commission's antitrust ...


No-poach agreements: An overview of EU and national case law

There are also vertical no-poach agreements, for example, between staffing agencies and the firms to which they supply workers. Horizontal no- ...

The UK-EU Competition Cooperation Agreement: Closer Apart?

As to antitrust cooperation, the agreement emphasized the need for cooperation and coordination when the EU and UK antitrust authorities are ...

Legal Battlefield for Antitrust in the EU & US Labour Markets

In the European Union, only the Portuguese Competition Authority has issued for the first time statements of objections to an anti-competitive ...

EU Competition Commissioner Signals Tougher Enforcement of No ...

[1] Vestager highlighted wage-fixing and no-poach agreements as two examples of labor market agreements that could create a cartel. Under a no- ...

Collective labour agreements and EU competition law: five ...

The European Commission has recently begun to reflect on whether competition law is a barrier to the formation of collective labour agreements between industry ...

COMPETITION AND LABOUR - ETUC

EU antitrust enforcement evidences a long list of prohibited agreements with hefty fines. Cartels are a recurrent issue that competition au- thorities appear to ...

Competition law and no-poach agreements: developments in Europe

Competition law in Europe has for some time dealt with certain employment issues (on both EU and national level), it is only recently that a ...

Wage Watchers in Brussels - European Commission focuses on ...

EU antitrust law does not exempt the labour market as it is in principle applicable to all agreements and concerted practices between companies.

Hard line against labour market agreements - Dentons

The European Commission is the latest competition authority to publish guidance on how labour market agreements should be dealt with under ...

It's Not Easy Being Green: The European Commission's New ...

Later, we will go on to consider joint ventures, purchasing agreements, and the antitrust risks related to information exchange. I. Why has ...

Poaching: The Biden Executive Order and Employment Restrictions ...

EU competition law (and the competition laws of EU Member States) can apply to agreements between competitors relating to no-poach, no-hire and ...

Labour market agreements and competition policy September 2021

European Union to horizontal co-operation agreements (JO C 11/1, 14.1.2011) ... 140 See Commission Notice on restrictions directly related and necessary ...

Competition Law And Labour Markets – EU Commission Looks At ...

In its Brief, the Commission takes the view that wage-fixing and no-poach agreements generally qualify as restrictions 'by object' under Article ...

Competition law enforcement in labour markets: what does it mean ...

However, employees cannot be considered “undertakings”. Consequently, employment contracts cannot be the subject of antitrust scrutiny even if ...

The EU, Competition and Workers' Rights - University College London

By the same token, a labour agreement between an employer and an employee will not fall under the scope of Article 101(1) TFEU, as it will not be an agreement ...

Guidance on anti-competitive agreements in labour markets

[7] Commission Notice on restrictions directly related and necessary ... competitive agreements, please refer to the European Commission's guidelines [9].

Towards an employment cartel law? - Squire Patton Boggs

European Commission, “Antitrust: Commission fines ethylene purchasers €260 million in cartel settlement”, 14 July 2020, https://ec.europa.eu/commission/ ...

The next frontier: EU/UK competition law and labour markets

The CMA Guidance defines these as agreements between employers to fix employees' pay or other employee benefits. This includes agreeing the same ...

EU Antitrust Enforcement in Labor Markets – A Little Less ...

Until very recently, the European Commission (“EC”) has not been so active in labor-related antitrust issues. This is likely to change given the ...

EU Competition | Services and Industries - Sidley Austin

As part of our global antitrust offering, Sidley has a strong and well-respected European competition practice comprising a seamlessly integrated, ...