FTC considers workers in deal reviews

Ben Remaly and Kaela Cote-Stemmermann

04 October 2018

Senators Hatch, Lee and Klobuchar

Federal Trade Commission staff have been instructed to evaluate each proposed merger for monopsony effects on labour, chairman Joseph Simons said during a Senate hearing on Wednesday.

Subscribe to Global Competition Review

Subscribe to unlock unlimited access

Get news, unique commentary, expert analysis and essential resources from the Global Competition Review experts.

Subscribe now

Already have access? Login below

Ben Remaly

View full biography

Author | Editor, GCR USA

[email protected]

Kaela Cote-Stemmermann

View full biography

Author

[email protected]

Tipline

Mr Smith Goes to Washington: The Tipline for 7 December 2022
Microsoft president Brad Smith is cameoing as a James Stewart character in a Frank Capra film this holiday season but, unfortunately for him, it's not “It's a Wonderful Life”. Instead, Smith is hightailing it from Seattle to the Federal Trade Commission in search of a guardian angel to salvage his company’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Meanwhile, as the new merger guidelines are being circulated internally at the US agencies, the Journalism Competition …
Look what you made me sue: The Tipline for 6 December 2022
Sherman’s gambit: The Tipline for 5 December 2022