Health Care Beat Podcast Episode 33: Antitrust Enforcement Of Employment Agreements – Antitrust, EU Competition

Over the term of this Administration, the DOJ and FTC have taken
aggressive and novel antitrust positions as it relates to the labor
market, launching broad investigations and criminal and civil
prosecutions against companies and their employees for alleged
labor market allocations, misuse of non-compete and
non-solicitation provisions, and wage fixing. The State Attorney
General Antitrust Divisions have followed suit investigating and
pursuing these claims at the state level. As so often happens,
these government investigations and public inquiries then serve as
the basis for expansive class actions.

On Episode 33 of Seyfarth’s Health Care Beat Podcast, host
Chris DeMeo is
joined by Kristine Argentine,
partner in Seyfarth’s Chicago office and chair of the
firm’s Commercial Consumer Class Action Defense group. Their
discussion focusses on a string of recent cases involving the
pursuit of employers across the health care industry (and others)
for labor-related antitrust violations. Kristine also provides
insight on how businesses can protect their investments in
personnel, while successfully mitigating the threat of criminal
prosecution.

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