Under U.S. Department of Justice guidance and increasingly under international competition frameworks, yes. No-poach agreements are agreements among employers — buyers of labor — not to compete for each other’s employees. They suppress wages and limit employee mobility in the same way price-fixing agreements suppress market competition. This is a common misconception that the training addresses directly.

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