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French ‘no-poach’ fines show sharpening of EU focus on labor-market abuses

By Jean Comte, Nicholas Hirst and Lewis Crofts ( June 12, 2025, 13:39 GMT | Comment) -- With four companies sanctioned yesterday, France’s competition authority is the latest European agency to intervene against worker “no-poach” clauses, adding heft to a new concern for regulators. But lawyers may welcome the way certain “time-limited” and “specific” no-poach agreements were deemed legitimate, while a “general” and “informal” understanding breached the law. Judges may get the chance to weigh in if there is an appeal.Corporate HR departments are on notice: European antitrust enforcers are constructing a body of cases against labor-market abuses, sending a clear signal that restricting job mobility is a serious antitrust breach....

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