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Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Passing the Laboring Oar? What’s to Come for No-Poach and Wage-Fixing Prosecutions

It’s been two years since the Antitrust Division brought its most recent — and only pending — criminal case involving labor markets. The two-year pause may be telling. It could indicate that prosecutors are picking and...more

Alston & Bird

DOJ to Prioritize Immigration Enforcement and Reporting

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Our Immigration Team investigates a new Department of Justice memo that expands immigration enforcement to include all available criminal statutes, not just immigration laws....more

Fisher Phillips

Top 10 Workplace Law Predictions for 2024

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It’s never easy to make accurate predictions about what we’ll see in the workplace in the coming year, especially given the recent volatility we’ve experienced and expect for the foreseeable future. Despite the ever-present...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Competition authorities crackdown on employment markets: a new era for cartels

At the end of last year, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) secured a guilty plea for wage fixing, resulting in its first criminal conviction with Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter saying: “[t]oday’s guilty plea...more

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6 Antitrust Compliance Steps Employers Should Consider After First-Ever Federal Criminal Prosecution in Wage Fixing Case

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A healthcare staffing firm in Nevada just pled guilty to conspiring with a competitor to fix wages for school nurses and agreeing not to solicit each other’s workers – the nation’s first-ever successful criminal prosecution...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

DOJ Secures First Win in Criminal No Poach Action

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On October 27, 2022, VDA OC, LLC, (VDA) a Nevada health care staffing company, pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to suppress and eliminate competition for the services of school nurses. According to the plea,...more

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DOJ Announces Indictment of Former Owner of Health Care Staffing Company for Wage Fixing

Yesterday the Department of Justice announced that a federal grand jury indicted Neeraj Jindal, the former owner of a therapist staffing company in north Texas, for his participation in a conspiracy to fix the wages of...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

But I'm in HR - What Do You Mean I Can Go to Jail?

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Wage and hour laws. Child labor laws. OSHA laws. Immigration laws. When employers do not comply with these types of employment laws, civil charges and lawsuits are not the only thing that can happen. In what may come as...more

Cozen O'Connor

III-42-The New Overtime Rule and Antitrust Issues With Your Non-Competes

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This episode outlines the key components of the U.S. Department of Labor’s new proposed overtime rule. Also, antitrust attorney David Reichenberg joins to discuss the antitrust issues that cannot be ignored when looking at...more

Burr & Forman

Unpaid Federal Employment Taxes: The Government’s Chief Enforcement Priority

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Businesses that have employees must pay wages and salaries to their employees, and the employer must collect federal employee income taxes and the employee’s share of social security (FICA) from these wages and salaries, add...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Employment Flash - April 2018

This edition of Employment Flash looks at recent court decisions, including the U.S. Supreme Court's rulings on cases relating to the definition of a whistleblower and exemptions from the overtime pay provisions. This edition...more

Perkins Coie

DoJ Employee "No-Poach" Antitrust Consent Decree Sharpens Compliance Teeth

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) filed a complaint recently alleging that competing railroad equipment manufacturers Knorr-Bremse AG, Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation (Wabtec) and Faiveley Transport S.A....more

Holland & Knight LLP

There’s a Safe Way to Conduct Employee Compensation Surveys

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With the Justice Department now publicly cracking down on arrangements between employers such as so-called "no-poaching" agreements, what's an employer to do to make sure its compensation for employees with highly portable...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Company Owner Pleads Guilty to Criminal Charges Stemming From Wage-Hour Investigation

When involved in a criminal investigation, the cover-up is usually worse than the underlying crime. Last month, a New Hampshire business owner learned this lesson the hard way when he pleaded guilty to charges based on his...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Are You Ready for Some Football? A Pocket Playbook for HR Managers Navigating Competitive Recruiting

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Just five days before Super Bowl LI, the intersecting crosshairs of antitrust and employment law class actions zeroed in on its latest target: the National Football League. On January 31, 2017, a former cheerleader for the...more

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