Antitrust Statement Regarding News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In a stark rebuke of the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) ongoing effort to pursue its first-ever criminal prosecution of a company for entering into non-solicitation—or no-poach—agreements with competitors, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (Chamber) recently filed an amicus brief assailing the constitutionality of the DOJ's indictment on due-process grounds. Background The DOJ's criminal enforcement in this area commenced only recently. In December 2020, the DOJ obtained its first crimin...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: More than four years after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) jointly released the Antitrust Guidance for Human Resource Professionals in 2016 (Antitrust Guidance), the DOJ has brought its first criminal indictments for wage-fixing and no-poach agreements. The 2016 Antitrust Guidance, released in the last few months of the Obama Administration, warned human resource professionals that agreements between competitors to set wages or to refrain from soliciting each other’s employees — so-ca...