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“Wage-fixing” or a “no poach” agreement can get you and your company indicted.
“Wage-fixing” is never OK, and there’s no lawful workaround.
But an agreement on “no direct solicitation” may be lawful if necessary to a legitimate business deal.
Antitrust counsel can help you determine whether a “no direct solicitation” provision is OK and how to structure it.
Within the past month, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division (the Division), in two separate matters, indicted a former owner of a health care staffing company for participating in a conspiracy to fix prices by lowering the rates paid to physical therapists and physical therapist assistants, and a health care company that owns and operates outpatient medical care centers across the country for agreeing with competitors not to solicit senior-level employees. (The Division’s press releases are available here and here.)
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The Department of Justice Antitrust Division (the “Division”) recently released updated guidance outlining when and how the Division will use arbitration in civil cases and merger investigations in the place of traditional litigation. The Division now encourages the use of arbitration in “appropriate” cases that would benefit from the use of such alternative dispute resolution techniques.
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Historically, the Division has not used its authorization to employ alternative dispute resolution techniques, like arbitration, provided by the Administrative Dispute Resolution Act of 1996 (“ADRA”). Shortly after the ADRA became law, that same year the Division first issued regulations on the possible use of alternative dispute resolution techniques. However, the Division did not invoke its own guidance until 2019, when it used arbitration for the first time, in United States v. Nov