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Wage Fixing
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Employment Law Landscape
New Indictments Raise Antitrust Issues in Employment Settings
By Gregory Dickinson, Richard J. Hoskins, Robert J. Wierenga
Two recent federal criminal indictments have captured the attention of both antitrust and employment lawyers, as well as the legal and business community nationwide. The cases – both in the…
Commercial Litigation Update
Less Than a Month After DOJ Brings Its First Wage-Fixing Indictment, DOJ Brings Its First “No-Poach” Indictment
By Janene Marasciullo, David J. Clark
Our colleagues Janene Marasciullo and David J. Clark of Epstein Becker Green have a new post on the Trade Secrets and Employee Mobility blog that will be of interest to…
The CLS Blue Sky Blog
Wilson Sonsini Discusses DOJ’s “No Poach” and “Wage-Fixing” Antitrust Prosecutions
By Karen Sharp, Ted Serra, Jeff VanHooreweghe
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (DOJ) has made good on a promise it made over four years ago to criminally charge companies that agree not to solicit each…
Trade Secrets & Employee Mobility
Less Than a Month After DOJ Brings Its First Wage-Fixing Indictment, DOJ Brings Its First “No-Poach” Indictment
By Janene Marasciullo, David J. Clark
In the past month, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has made good on its 2016 threat, contained in its Antitrust Guidance for Human Resource Professionals (“Antitrust Guidance”) to bring…
Does Crime Pay?
Antitrust Law Gets a “Like” From Federal Regulators in 2020
If it seems like 2020 was the year when everyone was talking about antitrust on their socially distant Zoom calls, that is because government antitrust lawyers have been busy. Just…
Trade Secrets & Employee Mobility
With Wage-Fixing Indictment, Department of Justice Initiates Long-Promised Criminal Proceedings
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that a federal grand jury in Texas indicted Neeraj Jindal, the former owner of a physical therapist staffing company, in…
Antitrust & Competition Blog
A Busy Month for DOJ on No-Poach/Wage-Fixing Enforcement Front
By Patrick Linehan, Damon Kalt, Rachel Peck, Dan Aldrich
This month has so far seen two significant actions taken by the Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division (Antitrust Division) on wage-fixing and no-poach litigation and enforcement matters, which has…
Investigations and Enforcement Blog
A Busy Month for DOJ on No-Poach/Wage-Fixing Enforcement Front
By Patrick Linehan, Damon Kalt, Rachel Peck, Dan Aldrich
This month has so far seen two significant actions taken by the Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division (Antitrust Division) on wage-fixing and no-poach litigation and enforcement matters, which has…
Cartel Capers
A Look Back at the Road to the Antitrust Division’s First Criminal Wage-Fixing Case
As far as criminal price fixing cases brought by the Antitrust Division, the indictment in US. v.. Neeraj Jindal, Case 4:20-cr-00358 (E.D. Texas, filed 12/9/20)(press release and indictment link here)…
Competition chronicle
Competition Bureau provides New Guidance: No Poach, Wage-Fixing and Other Buy-side Agreements
By Huy Do, Leslie J. Milton, Tony Di Domenico, Justine Reisler
The Canadian Competition Bureau (the “Bureau”) issued much welcomed guidance on Friday to confirm what many have said to date, namely that no-poaching,[1] wage-fixing[2] and other buy-side agreements fall outside…