Increased Antitrust Enforcement Targets Human Resources Practices

DOJ's Antitrust Division Launches New Task Force to Target Health ...

On May 9, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) announced a new task force to address “pressing antitrust ...

Antitrust Enforcement — Compliance Reference - GAN Integrity

Pursuant to Section 5 of the FTC Act, the Federal Trade Commission is empowered to challenge business practices that violate the Sherman Act or other federal ...

The 'No-Poach' Approach: Antitrust Enforcement of Employment ...

Antitrust scrutiny of no-poach and other types of agreements in the employment context is not new; there has been civil enforcement and ...

Webcast: Is Antitrust Becoming HR's Biggest Headache?

Is antitrust becoming HR's biggest headache? The antitrust enforcement agencies and plaintiffs' attorneys alike continue to prioritize ...

Privacy & Antitrust

On this dimension of surveillance capitalism, privacy law and antitrust law are much more ... to avoid pulling antitrust law away from its competition goals in a ...

Accommodating Capital and Policing Labor: Antitrust in the Two ...

Lande, The Fundamental Goal of Antitrust: Protecting Consumers, Not. Increasing Efficiency, 84 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 191, 192 (2008). Page 6. 770. MARYLAND LAW ...

Antitrust Enforcement Increases Economic Activity | NBER

... targeted. We document that DOJ antitrust enforcement actions permanently increase employment by 5.4% and business formation by 4.1%. Using ...

FTC And DOJ Issue Antitrust Guidance For Human Resource ...

The guidance provides recent examples of enforcement actions brought by both agencies, including cases where competitors agreed not to cold call ...

No Safe Harbors: DOJ Signals Increased Scrutiny of Information ...

On February 3, 2023, the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) withdrew its support for three long-standing policy ...

Understanding the Role of the FTC, DOJ, and States in Challenging ...

One set of policies would make it easier for governments to enforce antitrust law, such as by requiring more providers to report any planned ...

No Poaching, Employment Practices, and Antitrust - HeplerBroom LLC

Agreements among independent companies to fix wages have always been viewed as per se illegal. Compliance training for Human Resources personnel ...

Avoiding the Antitrust Pitfalls of No-Poach Agreements

The U.S. antitrust agencies, the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice, have issued a joint Antitrust Guidance for Human ...

Workforce Links and Resources | NUBC

... human resource professionals, the Certified in Healthcare Human Resources ... Legal Advisory: Increased Antitrust Enforcement Targets Human Resources Practices.

The Sequel?: Predicting Antitrust Enforcement in a New Trump ...

In our last post, we analyzed antitrust enforcement under the Biden administration, which highlighted the results of Biden Administration's ...

Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy

For workers, a competitive marketplace creates more high-quality jobs and the economic freedom to switch jobs or negotiate a higher wage. For ...

Client Briefing: Biden's Blueprint for Aggressive Antitrust Enforcement

The FTC moved quickly to target companies and industries to scrutinize, allow staff more ... targets at which to channel limited agency resources ...

Reviving Antitrust Enforcement in the Airline Industry

Although this practice leads to higher prices and reduced competition, antitrust regulators, from the DOT to the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade ...

The Biden Administration Is Taking Antitrust Seriously. These Law ...

"These are the cases that firms dream about, where they can throw an incredible amount of resources at it, because the stakes are so incredibly ...

No-Poach Agreements Receive Their Marching Orders in the US ...

Given this increased momentum, it would be remiss of employers in Europe not to add labor practices and their HR departments to their antitrust ...

Antitrust Reform and Big Tech Firms - CRS Reports

69 The practice was also a common target of antitrust enforcement through the ... Antitrust Law, Freedom, and Human Development, 41. CARDOZO ...