Increased Antitrust Enforcement Targets Human Resources Practices

At Issue: Federal antitrust enforcers issued guidelines for human resources departments in October 2016 warning that agreements among companies— ...

International Antitrust Onslaught Against HR Practices | Insight

In the past few years, enforcement against restrictive labor market agreements has become a priority for many competition authorities ...

Antitrust Enforcers Continue to Target Labor Market Practices

Since the issuance of the 2016 HR Antitrust Guidance, DOJ has repeatedly stated that it views naked wage-fixing and no-poach agreements between ...

DOJ Emphasizes Importance of Antitrust Compliance Programs for ...

The US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division recently stated that antitrust compliance programs must include training for human ...

Labor Antitrust Enforcement: Looking Ahead to 2023 - O'Melveny

The year 2022 saw many significant developments at the intersection of antitrust and labor law: criminal enforcement brought the first wage-fixing and no-poach ...

A Shift in Antitrust Enforcement of HR-Related Conduct Spurred ...

Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim of DOJ Antitrust Division used the historic indictment as an opportunity to warn that “[e]mployers who ...

International antitrust onslaught against HR practices: act now to ...

As a result, certain HR practices are in the spotlight of antitrust enforcers and companies and staff who agree not to poach employees from ...

Antitrust Guidance for Human Resources Professionals

HR professionals often are in the best position to ensure that their companies' hiring practices comply with the antitrust laws. In particular, HR professionals ...

Employers Beware: Aggressive and Expansive Labor-Focused ...

Employers Beware: Aggressive and Expansive Labor-Focused Antitrust Enforcement Will Remain The New Normal ... In the past year, the U.S. Federal ...

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

The DOJ and State Attorneys General continue to apply federal (and state) antitrust laws to what they deem to be anticompetitive conduct by ...

Changing Tides in HR Antitrust: What Employers Need to Know

Specifically, HR professionals, in-house employees responsible for recruitment and hiring, and high-ranking executives could now face criminal ...

HR issues in antitrust – competing or cheating? | EmploymentLinks

Anti-competitive practices relating to human resources are once again under the spotlight following a spate of investigations and dawn raids targeting ...

HR Antitrust Compliance Crucial Amid DOJ Scrutiny, Law360

The US Justice Department's Antitrust Division recently announced a required human resources (HR) component for antitrust compliance ...

FTC/DOJ Guidance to Human Resource Professionals ... - WilmerHale

The HR Guidance reflects the agencies' enhanced scrutiny in a realm that may not immediately seem a focus for antitrust enforcement: Agreements ...

Guidance for HR Antitrust Compliance

Currently, antitrust enforcers are targeting provisions covering hourly and low-wage workers. Such clauses may also be found in agreements ...

Antitrust for HR professionals: Employment & Labor Insider

In the present context, antitrust law is concerned about how competitors compete for employees. In 2016, the FTC and U.S. Department of Justice ...

Adapting to change: Compliance in the era of heightened antitrust ...

Given DOJ and FTC's continued commitment to enforcing the competition laws in labor markets, companies should enhance their compliance to avoid ...

HR Professionals Beware: Antitrust Violations in the Employment ...

Companies should consider the Agencies' Guidance as a warning that human resource professionals are not immune to the antitrust laws. Often, HR ...

Antitrust Enforcement Increases Economic Activity - Ezra Karger

practices that are targeted by the DOJ antitrust enforcement. Last, to ensure that we have a control group, we require that the industry not be targeted ...

Four key antitrust events in Q4 2021 target labor markets and aim to ...

The focus on using the antitrust laws to target labor markets has been gaining momentum for years, but the close of 2021 saw the trend hit ...