Using the Horizontal Merger Guidelines to Evaluate Labor Market Effects of Mergers

For a number of years, the U.S. antitrust agencies have been signaling an increased focus on antitrust enforcement in labor markets. In addition, there have been growing calls for strengthened scrutiny of anticompetitive conduct in labor markets from economists and legal scholars. But, President Biden’s 2021 executive order was the clearest signal to date that labor-related enforcement will likely become a centerpiece of U.S. antitrust policy. Now, the U.S. antitrust agencies are foc