Six recruitment agencies that supply workers to the construction industry have been fined a total of £39.27m by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for price-fixing and the collective boycott of another company.
The companies,
A Warwick Associates
Beresford Blake Thomas
CDI AndersElite
Eden Brown
Fusion People
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Henry Recruitment
Hill McGlynn & Associates
were all found to have breached the Competition Act and to have engaged in anti-competitive conduct.
Another two agencies, Beresford Blake Thomas and Hill McGlynn & Associates, have been granted immunity from fines in return for exposing the cartel. (source Contract Journal 30.09.09)
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