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.

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Ben Remaly

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