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Fin24 reports that the Competition Commission has referred three recruitment specialists to the Competition Tribunal on charges of price fixing.
“The Competition Commission has decided to prosecute three advertising practitioners specialising in recruitment advertising services for price fixing, market division and collusive tendering,” it said in a statement on Thursday. The action follows an investigation by the commission, which found that Human Communications, Kone Staffing and Jobvest discussed and agreed on prices at which to quote their customers. Their services include linking job seekers to potential employers and assisting their clients to place advertisements in newspapers, the commission said. The respondents were engaged in horizontal restrictive practices (a relationship between competitors at the same level), according to the commission.
- Read this report in full at Fin24
- See too, Three recruitment ad agencies in trouble with competition authorities, at BusinessLive
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