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Wage Fixing
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Competition chronicle
Competition Bureau Issues Draft Guidelines on Wage-Fixing and No-Poaching Agreements: What You Need to Know
By Tony Di Domenico, Chris Margison, Peter Mangaly
On June 23, 2022, Bill C-19, also known as the Budget Implementation Act, 2022, No.1 (“BIA”), received royal assent. As discussed in more detail in our previous blog post, the…
Canadian Labour and Employment Law
Canadian Employers: Comply or Face Criminal Liability on No Poach and Wage Fixing Agreements (Video)
Special thanks to Arlan Gates and Justine Johnston. Amendments to the Competition Act that come into force on June 23, 2023 will make it a criminal offence for employers to enter…
Antitrust Advocate
DOJ Antitrust Division Not Backing Down on Labor
By Kayley Sullivan, BakerHostetler
Despite back-to-back losses in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) first-ever criminal no-poach and wage-fixing cases, the Antitrust Division (the Division) is not backing down from its enforcement focus on labor.…
WSNYC Blog: The Latest in Employment Law
American Chicken Processors Sued for Unlawful Wage-Fixing
By Casey Liu
It is no secret that Americans love chicken. Chicken is the most popular protein in the country, and the American chicken industry is the largest in the world. Producing such…
Healthcare Law Insights
Two Strikes for DOJ: Health Care Executives Not Guilty of Antitrust Conspiracies
By Wendy Arends
The U.S. Department of Justice’s recent criminal prosecutions of health care executives for no-poach and wage-fixing conspiracies have been met with not-guilty verdicts. Despite these losses, the Department continues to prosecute…
Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer
FTC Updates (April 11-15, 2022)
By Kari Ferver
For the first time, the FTC used its new Made in USA rule to go after a battery manufacturer. The rule, enacted last summer, gives the agency power to seek…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Wage-Fixing and No Poaching Agreements: Why Antitrust Suits Are the Hottest “Trend” in HR
In January 2021, I wrote about the potential for a new wave of lawsuits that employers needed to pay attention to -- lawsuits (and criminal charges) based on antitrust law. …
Minding Your Business
It’s Not a Threat, It’s a Promise: Timeline of the DOJ’s Statements and Actions Against Wage Fixing and No Poach Agreements
By Colin Kass, David Munkittrick, Reut N. Samuels
Over the past year, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has increasingly been hot on the heels of suspected anti-competitive labor violations. To date, the DOJ has brought a few actions…
Hall Benefits Law Blog
Department of Justice’s 1st Wage-Fixing Case Survives Motion to Dismiss
By Anne Hall
In December 2020, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Neeraj Jindal, the former owner of a therapist staffing company, for participating in a price-fixing conspiracy to lower the…
Antitrust & Competition Blog
Ruling in No-Poach/Wage-Fixing Prosecution Opens New Antitrust Frontier
By Damon Kalt, John Kavanagh, Patrick Linehan, Michael Weiner, Drew Harris
One year after the first criminal indictment for wage-fixing, a Texas federal district court has ruled that an agreement to fix wages is a per se violation of Section 1 of the…