NLRB, DOJ Forge Bonds to Protect Labor Through Antitrust Laws

High-ranking National Labor Relations Board and Department of Justice officials emphasized the importance of collaboration in using labor and antitrust law to protect workers during a lecture at City University of New York.

NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo and Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ’s Antitrust Division Jonathan Kanter both touched on issues ranging from worker misclassification to noncompete agreements and mergers in the talk at CUNY’s law school Thursday.

“We look at the same situations through different lenses but our goals are the same,” Abruzzo said. “We want to stop unfair labor practices and stop employment models and structures ...