The Department of Justice’s first-ever criminal trials over companies’ alleged violations of labor-related antitrust laws are set to kick off.
The pair of trials, which start Monday, will try federal antitrust regulators’ previously untested guidance that could prove a watershed moment for their prosecution of wage-fixing and no-poach agreements.
In its first criminal indictment for wage-fixing violations, the DOJ’s 2020 complaint in USA v. Jindal, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleged that the owner of a therapy staffing company conspired with competitors to lower pay and recruit others to the scheme.
Neeraj Jindal, ...
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