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Wage Fixing
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Bright Law Blog
Draft legislation to ban employee non-compete clauses
Treasury has released a draft Treasury Laws Amendment (Banning Unfair Non-Competes) Bill 2026 to ban non‑compete clauses for Australian workers under $190,100 per year (the Fair Work Act high‑income threshold).The…
Global Workplace Insider
Competing for talent – CMA guidance on competition law relating to employment practices
On 9 September 2025, the Competition and Markets Authority published guidance on Competing for talent, setting out cases where businesses may breach competition law through hiring employees and/or setting their…
Agricultural Law Weekly Review
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—June 24, 2025
This Week—Fri. June 27 at Noon: Pennsylvania’s Clean & Green Program: County-Level Administration Register Now—2025 PA Agricultural Law Symposium, Sept. 18, 2025, at Univ. Park, PA. Antitrust: Federal Court Approves…
The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Antitrust in Labor Markets
By Bona Law PC
Authors: Ruth Glaeser and Steven Cernak In her first major speech since taking the helm of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater spotlighted a growing concern:…
Federal Regulatory & Enforcement Insider
DOJ Notches First Trial Win in Wage-Fixing Case
On Monday, April 14, 2025, a federal jury convicted Eduardo “Eddie” Lopez of conspiring to fix the wages for home healthcare nurses in Las Vegas and for fraudulently failing to…
Labor & Employment Law Blog
DOJ and FTC Issue Antitrust Guidelines for Business Activities Affecting Workers
By Ann O'Brien, T.J. Benedict, Jake Walker
Four days before President Trump took office, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) (together, “the Agencies”) under the Biden administration released their “Antitrust Guidelines for Business…
Manufacturing Law Blog
New Antitrust Guidance Provides Ground Rules for Labor Markets—Or Does It?
This post was co-authored by Antitrust + Trade Regulation lawyer Jennifer Driscoll and Managed Care + ERISA Litigation lawyer Stephanie J. Oppenheim On January 16, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission…
Regulatory Oversight
FTC and DOJ Issue Antitrust Guidelines for Business Activities Affecting Workers
By Troutman Pepper Locke State Attorneys General Team, Kyara Rivera Rivera, Christy Matelis
On January 16, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued "Antitrust Guidelines for Business Activities Affecting Workers" (2025 Guidelines). The 2025 Guidelines aim to "promote…
Class Action Defense Blog
Seventh Circuit Breathes New Life Into Ex-Workers’ Antitrust Wage-Suppression Class Action Battle With McDonald’s
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Sean P. McConnell Dane Morris Takeaways: On August 25, 2023, Judge Frank Easterbrook of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit published…
Canadian Labour and Employment Law
Competition Bureau releases enforcement guidelines for wage-fixing and no-poach agreements
Special thanks to authors Arlan Gates and Justine Johnston. The Canadian Competition Act was recently amended to, among other things, criminalize wage-fixing and no-poach agreements between unaffiliated employers1. Following a…