Tag: Labor Markets
The First Chinese Court Decision On Antitrust Issues In Labor Markets
By: Cunzhen Huang, Yiming Sun & Huanbing Xu (Cleary Antitrust Watch)
This post will soon be published on LEXIS Antitrust Report.
Antitrust enforcement in labor markets has become a focus of...
FTC & DOJ Announce Agenda For “Promoting Competition in Labor Markets”...
The Federal Trade Commission has announced an agenda for its upcoming virtual workshop regarding competition in labor markets.
First announced on Oct. 27, 2021, “Making Competition...
The Rise of the Labor-Antitrust Movement
By Eric A. Posner1
Magicians frequently perform tricks by drawing audience members’ attention to an unimportant but visually arresting object so that they miss the...
Antitrust Division Commits To Labor Market Enforcement As A Top Priority
By: Robert Connolly (Cartel Capers)
At an October 1, 2021 in-person conference (Fordham’s 48th Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law and Policy) Acting Assistant Attorney...
Imperfect Competition in Labor Markets
President Biden’s recent Executive Order on “Promoting Competition in the American Economy” centered employers’ monopsony power and anticompetitive conduct as core components of American...
DOJ Antitrust Official Says Competition In Labor Markets A Concern
The US Justice Department's acting head of its Antitrust Division said on Friday, October 1, that labor markets were a top priority for enforcement...
Buyer Cartel Doctrine: Lessons From Labor Antitrust
While there is general agreement that buyer collusion can be as anticompetitive (and illegal) as seller collusion, the sparse caselaw on buyer cartels leaves...
A Note on Antitrust, Labor, and “No Cold Call” Agreements in...
By Russell Pittman (US Department of Justice)1
The issue of how to provide incentives for a private firm to invest in the knowledge and capabilities...
States and Non-Competes: Where Are Things Headed?
By Schonette J. Walker & Arthur Durst
Non-competes have been used in employment contracts for centuries. In the past few decades however, perhaps because their...
When Competition Meets Labor: The Washington Attorney General’s Initiative to Eliminate...
In January 2018, the Washington Attorney General launched an initiative to eliminate no-poach clauses in franchise agreements nationwide. These particular no-poach provisions were covenants...
