The Biden administration has made promoting competition a top priority, as reflected in President Biden’s July executive order on competition. (For a complete description of the executive order and developments in its implementation, please visit Steptoe’s Executive Order on Competition Tracker). This priority is reflected in appointments that President Biden has made to the
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Poaching: The Biden Executive Order and Employment Restrictions in Europe
By Paul Hughes, Charles Whiddington, Michael Weiner, Patrick Linehan, Zoe Osborne, Simon Hirsbrunner & John Kavanagh on
Posted in Jurisdiction - EU, Jurisdiction – US
No-poach and wage-fixing agreements – arrangements between companies seeking to prevent or limit the hiring of each other’s employees, or to suppress the wages and/or benefits of their respective current employees are not only currently under the spotlight in the US, but have also been subject to scrutiny by antitrust authorities in the European Union…
Antitrust Enforcement in the Biden Administration: What We Know from the First 100 Days
By Damon Kalt, John Kavanagh, Michael Weiner & Rachel Peck on
Steptoe’s Antitrust practice hosted a complimentary webinar on antitrust enforcement in the Biden administration. Click here to access the recording.
During the webinar, the team compared and contrasted enforcement priorities and actions from the Trump administration with the positions the Biden administration might take that are informed by campaign proposals and actions so far. The…
Supreme Court: FTC May Not Seek Restitution Directly in Federal Court
By Damon Kalt, John Kavanagh & Michael Weiner on
Posted in Jurisdiction – US, Litigation
As we predicted in Steptoe’s client webinar last week on “Antitrust Enforcement in the Biden Administration – What We Know from The First 100 Days,” on April 22, 2021 the US Supreme Court put an end to the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) longstanding practice under § 13(b) of the FTC Act of seeking disgorgement or restitution orders in cases brought by the agency in federal courts.
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Joint DOJ/FTC Antitrust Statement on US Labor Markets in the COVID-19 Crisis
By John Kavanagh on
Posted in COVID-19, Jurisdiction – US
On Monday April 13, 2020, DOJ and the FTC issued a joint statement warning employers that COVID-19 does not provide a reason to tolerate anticompetitive conduct that harms workers. The agencies said that they are on alert for collusion and other anticompetitive conduct in labor markets during the crisis. They are focused on agreements to…