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John Terzaken Quoted in Law360 on Antitrust Concerns for Employers
08.06.19
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Litigation Partner John Terzaken was quoted in a Law360 article titled, “3 Things Employers Should Know About Antitrust Law.” In the article, John discusses the growing interest by the DOJ and FTC in no-poach agreements, saying that it's “only a matter of time” before criminal antitrust charges are brought against businesses that agree not to hire their competitor’s workers. John also comments at length on potential risks involved in the use of benchmarking services by businesses to measure the salaries they offer against their competitors, and offers these businesses three pieces of advice for avoiding wage-fixing allegations: make sure you are using a third party, not a competitor’s unit; only use anonymized or aggregated data; and make sure the numbers you are using for comparison are not too current.
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