The Department of Labor (DOL) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the government’s antitrust enforcement agencies, committing to share information that could help in investigations of allegedly anticompetitive merger acquisitions. The MOU with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), formally called the Memorandum of Understanding on Labor Issues in Merger Investigations DOJ-Antitrust, FTC, DOL, NLRB, took effect August 28, 2024.
The DOL and the NLRB separately signed MOUs with the DOJ and FTC in 2022. The new MOU highlights additional data sources that the DOJ and FTC hope to use in their antitrust investigations. It also commits DOL and the NLRB to provide labor-related training to DOJ and FTC staff and commits the agencies to meet biannually to coordinate efforts.
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