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

Until now, the European Commission's (EC) antitrust focus on labour-related issues has been timid. This may soon change. The EC has recently ...

European Commission Turns Focus to Competition in Labour ...

A recent EC policy statement signals increased scrutiny of EU labour market competition. It treats wage-fixing and no-poach agreements as ...

Labor Markets in the Focus of European Competition Law

In May 2024, the European Commission published a Competition Policy Brief classifying certain agreements related to labor markets as serious antitrust ...

Antitrust - European Commission

If proven, the behaviour under investigation may breach EU competition rules, which prohibit the abuse of a dominant position (Article 102 of ...

Competition policy brief - European Union

poach agreements, altogether “labour market agreements”, and does not concern the assessment of the same agreements in the context of a concentration, for ...

A NOVEL, HARD STANCE ON NO-POACH AGREEMENTS YET TO ...

Heightened vigilance for employers going forward. Page 2. NEW EUROPEAN COMMISSION POLICY. BRIEF ON ANTITRUST IN LABOUR. MARKETS: A NOVEL, HARD ...

Commission takes labour market enforcement to the next level | Stibbe

... agreements are scooped up by the EU's national competition authorities, an investigation at EU ... Commission, labour-related agreements ...

Antitrust and labour markets – a new focus of EU competition ...

In its latest policy brief, the EC reiterates its view and adds that wage-fixing and no-poach agreements are unlikely to qualify as ancillary ...

Going into Labor: The European Commission's newfound Interest in ...

In May 2024, the European Commission (“EC”) published a policy briefing on the application of European competition law to conduct related to ...

The Assessment of Labor Market Collusion: EC Policy Brief on ...

The existing legal framework allows the EC and EU national competition authorities to take decisive action against anticompetitive agreements in ...

US and EU competition authorities having closer look at labour market

Wage-fixing and no-poach agreements typically fall under the category of restrictions by object as defined in Article 101(1) TFEU. That means ...

Employment Law Meets Antitrust: Competition 101 for HR ...

Competition authorities in Europe and the United Kingdom are increasingly focusing in on labor markets in their enforcement activities.

The EU Commission publishes a new Policy Brief on enforcement ...

The European Commission has published a new policy brief on Antitrust in Labor Markets, available here. The brief focuses on the enforcement ...

Collective labour agreements and EU competition law

The policy focus to date has been on whether and how to extend the antitrust labour exemptions to certain classes of atypical worker. This paper shows how ...

The EU Commission publishes a policy brief on how labour market ...

In May 2024, the European Commission (“EC”) published a policy briefing on the application of European competition law to conduct related to ...

Full article: Collective labour agreements and EU competition law

Accordingly, the antitrust labour exemptions were not applicable and the arrangement between workers and Hilfr to set a minimum hourly fee was considered ...

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/ ...

Turning up the Heat: the Commission's Interest in Labor Markets

Until now, labor-related antitrust issues have received limited attention at the EU level. ... While not constituting a full-fledged official ...

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 ...

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- ...