No-Poach Attorney

South Carolina No-Poach Attorney

Recently, the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) began cracking down hard on employers that form “no-poach” agreements with other employers so they do not try to take each other’s employees (and, in the process, stifle wages).  This is a form of an illegal anticompetitive agreement, and individuals are going to prison for making these types of agreements because it is a form of “wage fixing.”

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• Civil conspiracy
• Class actions
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• No poach
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• Price Fixing
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• Whistleblower / Qui Tam
• Unfair business and trade practices

What is a no-poach agreement?

In 2016, the DOJ and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued joint “Antitrust Guidance for Human Resources Professionals” reasserting the illegality of, and potential penalties for, entering into the following types of agreements:

(1) agreements to fix the salary or other terms of compensation, whether at a specific level or within a range, for employees (wage-fixing agreements) or

(2) agreements to preclude companies from hiring or soliciting each other’s employees without justification (no-poaching agreements).

The Antitrust Guidance emphasized that wage fixing agreements and no poaching agreements could subject companies and individuals to criminal, as well as civil, actions.  Indeed, since the joint guidance was published there have been a number of civil and criminal prosecutions of no poach cases.