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.
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.
Department of Justice DOJ has been working on anti-competitive labor violations. To date, DOJ brought actions against employers across industries relating to wage-fixing and no-poach agreements. Cases taking hold and potentially even heading toward trial.
The U.S. Department of Justice will require Zen-Noh Grain Corp. to divest nine grain elevators so it can acquire 48 elevators from Bunge North America.
Tyson Foods, the largest poultry processor, is cooperating with the investigation. By
2/24/2021 The second-largest U.S. poultry processor, Pilgrim’s Pride, pleaded guilty in federal court in Denver to conspiring to fix prices of broiler meat and was sentenced to pay a criminal fine of $108 million, said the Justice Department on Tuesday. Pilgrim’s was the first company to settle charges in an alleged conspiracy that involved 10 officials from five processors. According to the plea agreement, Pilgrim’s participated in the price-fixing and bid-rigging conspiracy from as early as 2012 and continuing until at least 2017 to suppress and eliminate competition in broiler meat sales. At least $361 million in Pilgrim’s sales were affected, said the Justice Department.