When COVID-19 was at its worst, many doctors wanted to go where they were most needed. Their bosses said no.
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Posted inEconomic Policy
The Transformation at the Heart of Biden’s Middle-Out Economic Agenda
The economy is not about money; it’s about people.
Posted inWorking in America
Restoring Workers’ Freedoms
A recent proposal to ban noncompete agreements begins to reverse the erosion of worker power in America.
Posted inTAP
Employers Contemplate Life Without Noncompetes
Today on TAP: Businesses ponder ways to keep their workers other than compulsion; seek legal counsel.
Posted inWorking in America
States Should Celebrate the FTC’s Noncompete Ban … and Then Pass Their Own
To guard against a Republican rollback, states can act to protect worker freedoms.
Posted inTransportation
The FTC Banned an Unfair Practice. The Department of Transportation Can, Too.
DOT has the same statutory language to effectively ban deceptive flight cancellations, the way the FTC has banned noncompete agreements.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
FTC Ban on Noncompetes Sets Up Huge Legal Fight
The agency used its dormant rulemaking authority to prohibit the wage suppression tactic. Conservatives are already positioning to fight the rule in the courts.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Anti-Monopoly Fight Will Be in the States
A new task force aims to take on corporate power at the state and local levels.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Conservative Plan to Subvert Antitrust Enforcement
Corporate lawyers have laid out the blueprint to neuter the Federal Trade Commission.
Posted inWorking in America
When Workers’ Rights and Antitrust Come Together
Which they did on Tuesday, when the NLRB and the Justice Department announced a joint effort to go after monopsonistic violators of workers’ rights
