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Investigations and Enforcement Blog
Client Advisory: 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…
Hermann Law Our Blog
Wage Fixing is Anticompetitive
Texas Court Says Wage Fixing is a Crime In another huge victory for workers, a federal court sitting in Texas has recently held that wage-fixing is a violation of federal…
Trade Secrets & Employee Mobility
DOJ’s First Wage Fixing Indictment Survives a Motion to Dismiss Because Court Finds Wage-Fixing Agreements Are Illegal <em>Per Se</em>
By Janene Marasciullo, David J. Clark
Within the last year, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) brought its first indictments alleging criminal wage-fixing conspiracies and criminal no-poach conspiracies among competing employers. In December 2020, DOJ indicted…
Cartel Capers
District Court Finds Antitrust Division’s First Wage Fixing Indictment Alleges a Per Se Violation
On November 29, 2021 in U.S. v. Neeraj Jindal and John Rodgers, Civil Action No. 4:20-CR-00358A (N.D. Texas), District Court Judge Amos L. Mazzant rejected defendants’ motion to dismiss the…
Antitrust & Competition Blog
Poaching: The Biden Executive Order and Employment Restrictions in Europe
By Paul Hughes, Charles Whiddington, Michael Weiner, Patrick Linehan, Zoe Osborne, Simon Hirsbrunner, John Kavanagh
No-poach and wage-fixing agreements - arrangements between companies seeking to prevent or limit the hiring of each other’s employees, or to suppress the wages and/or benefits of their respective current…
Trade Secrets & Employee Mobility
Illinois Attorney General’s Office on the Lookout for Unlawful No-Poach Agreements
By Brian E. Spang, Angel A. Perez
In January of this year, our colleagues Janene Marasciullo and David Clark wrote about federal criminal indictments issued for naked wage-fixing and no-poach agreements. They warned that these federal indictments…
Trade Secrets & Employee Mobility
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court Nixes a No-Poach Agreement Between Business Partners as Overbroad
By Janene Marasciullo, Daniel J. Green
As reported here and here, in December 2019 and January 2020, the United States Department of Justice brought its first criminal charges against employers who entered into “naked” wage fixing…
Commercial Litigation Update
No-Poaching Agreements, Wage Fixing & Antitrust Prosecution
Our colleague Stuart Gerson authored an article in Bloomberg Law, titled “No-Poaching Agreements, Wage Fixing & Antitrust Prosecution.” The following is an excerpt (see below to download the full version in PDF format):…
Trade Secrets & Employee Mobility
No-Poaching Agreements and Wage Fixing: The Antitrust Prosecution Risks
As readers of this blog know, no-poach and wage-fixing agreements are a current hot topic for both civil and criminal enforcement by the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice.…
Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. Alerts and Updates
Department of Justice Secures First Criminal Indictments Against Companies for No-Poach and Wage-Fixing Agreements
By Matthew DeLange, Michael J. Gentry
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