The DOJ Continues to Prosecute 'No|Poach' and 'Wage Fixing' Cases

U.S. Antitrust Authorities Now Characterize Employee Wage-Fixing ...

With the policy move, however, the DOJ (and FTC) is squarely placing the bullseye on human resources personnel and other corporate employees who agree with ...

No-Poach Approach Continues: DOJ Secures First Criminal ...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division secured its first win in a criminal enforcement of labor market antitrust violations on ...

DOJ Makes Good on Promise To Prosecute Wage Fixing as ...

DOJ continues to take a rigid stance on no-poach agreements. Its amicus brief in Aya Healthcare is in line with its position in the 2019 case ...

The U.S. Department of Justice Loses Another Labor-related ...

The not-guilty verdict is the third time in less than a year that the DOJ lost a labor-related antitrust case in the healthcare sector. In April ...

DOJ Drops No-Poach Criminal Case - Stevens & Lee

Notably, this dismissal comes in the aftermath of the DOJ having previously lost four other criminal cases involving either no-poach or ...

DOJ Continues Focus on Labor Markets – Brings Criminal No ...

The DOJ has also filed statements of interest in civil no-poach and wage-fixing cases. Antitrust enforcement in the labor markets is likely to ...

Alleged “No-Poach” Agreement in Health Care Industry Results in ...

Since December 2020, the DOJ has brought criminal charges against other health care companies for entering into no-poach and/or wage fixing ...

Employers are Subject to Criminal Antitrust Charges for Wage-Fixing ...

The DOJ's increasing focus on anticompetitive conduct among companies that compete in the same employment marketplace is not surprising, as no- ...

No-poach agreements – Closing the enforcement gap - WilmerHale

The DOJ has since then pursued criminally several such deals and has also been active in civil cases related to no-poach and wage-fixing. 8. In ...

DOJ Launches 2 Criminal Prosecutions of Illegal No-Poach and ...

We've heard the warnings about criminal indictments against companies engaging in no-poach or wage-fixing agreements. Now the DOJ's ...

"No-poach" Agreements As Sherman Act § 1 Violations

Federal courts turned a corner in recognizing that the proper competitive harm analysis in no-poach cases should be aimed at competition in the labor market for ...

DOJ Brings First Criminal “No-Poach” and “Wage-Fixing” Prosecutions

These indictments mark the first times that DOJ has challenged alleged no-poaching and wage-fixing agreements as criminal violations of federal ...

DOJ: No-poach Agreements Violate Antitrust Laws, Criminal ...

For example, in 2010 the DOJ filed lawsuits against six large high technology companies – Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Google Inc., Intel ...

Developments in U.S. Antitrust Criminal Enforcement — 2023 Year ...

Significant Cases of 2023 · United States v. Patel. DOJ alleged that an aerospace company executive, along with several suppliers of engineering ...

DOJ's Antitrust Division Launches Two Criminal Prosecutions of ...

The Antitrust Division continued to warn against criminal prosecution of naked no-poach and wage-fixing agreements among employers.

Federal and State Authorities Bring Antitrust Enforcement to the ...

Over the next four years, the DOJ continued to successfully pursue alleged wage-fixing and no-poach schemes through civil enforcement means, but ...

Criminal enforcement of labour market antitrust violations

Since late 2020, however, the DOJ has obtained grand jury indictments in a series of no-poach and wage fixing cases around the country, and this past April the ...

Wage-Fixing Suit Signals Shift in Government's Prosecution of ...

This week, the Department of Justice secured a guilty plea in an antitrust case involving a so-called “no poach” agreement. Below we discussed ...

Lessons From DOJ's Wave Of Labor Market Prosecutions

Between late 2020 and early 2022, the DOJ brought six cases alleging no-poach or wage-fixing agreements — and sometimes both. These cases were ...

DOJ brought its first indictment against a healthcare company

It is also the first no-poaching case to come in the wake of the October 2016 Joint DOJ and FTC Antitrust Guidance to Human Resources ...