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20Jan

Agreeing With A Competitor To Fix Employee Wages Will Get You Indicted. Agreeing Not To Solicit Each Other’s Employees Might Also.

Within the past month, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division (the Division), in two separate matters, indicted a former owner of a health care staffing company for participating in a conspiracy to fix prices by lowering the rates paid to physical therapists and physical therapist assistants, and a health care company that owns and operates outpatient medical care centers across the country for agreeing with competitors not to solicit senior-level employees......
By: Lowenstein Sandler LLP
Source Url: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/agreeing-with-a-competitor-to-fix-6690452/

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