Labor Market collusion Archives - Corruption, Crime & Compliance

3 Feb, 2022

Antitrust Division Indicts Four Individuals for Wage Fixing in Labor Markets (Part III of III)

Criminal antitrust is burning a path in prosecuting illegal wage-fixing agreements in labor markets. The Justice Department warned companies over five years ago and now DOJ is executing on its warning. Over the last two years, the Antitrust Division has indicted four companies and seventeen (17) individuals. The Antitrust Division is promising more indictments. At the end of 2021, DOJ indicted six individuals, one of...

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6 Apr, 2021

Antitrust Division Charges Health Care Staffing Company with Criminal Wage-Fixing and No-Poaching Agreement

The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division is pushing criminal enforcement against companies for illegal wage-fixing among competitors in the hiring market. After years of warning companies that DOJ intended to prosecute criminal cases for illegal cartel activity in labor markets, DOJ is delivering on its warning. In its third announced criminal case, DOJ has indicted VDA OC, LLC, a health care staffing company that supplied nurses...