HR issues in antitrust – a new frontier for competition lawyers?

Alongside an uptick in antitrust investigations involving more traditional theories of harm, lawyers across the globe are now seeing increasing interest by enforcers and civil plaintiffs around anticompetitive HR practices, in particular wage-fixing and non-solicitation (or “no-poach”) agreements. Companies are increasingly having to review, update and amend compliance policies to reflect a newly heightened risk, working with areas of the business that have previously been outside the day-to-day scope of antitrust lawyers.

On that basis, the Linklaters Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group held a webinar on antitrust enforcement around anticompetitive HR practices in the US and Europe. This webinar explored the key issues facing businesses, policy makers and other market participants in this area on a global scale. Our experts from across our US, UK and European Antitrust and Employment teams discussed topics including:

> Investigations and enforcement actions around the world
> The USDOJ/FTC Antitrust Guidance for Human Resources Professionals
> Civil damages risk
> Issues around the use of personal data and how to manage data privacy concerns
> What companies and HR professionals should be doing to protect themselves