October 18, 2024
AJ Rudowitz (LAW ’17), Bryan Shapiro (LAW ’20), Sean P. McConnell, and Matthew Steinway discuss a proposed approval for a settlement agreement to compensate collegiate athletes following the House v. NCAA decision.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2016 published Antitrust Guidance for Human Resource Professionals warning of criminal remedies for those participating in illegal no-poach agreements. Recently, the DOJ and FTC made good on that promise by filing the first public criminal indictment alleging a conspiracy between companies in which they agreed not to poach each other’s employees. The DOJ and FTC warned they could take such actions when “naked” wage-fixing and no-poach agreements were per se illegal violations under the antitrust laws.