Business Blog
Back up those earnings claims — and other lessons from the FTC’s Labor Task Force work
A healthy labor market is critical to the country’s success. That’s why last year, FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson formed a Labor Task Force to maximize the agency’s broad-based jurisdiction and interdisciplinary expertise to confront deceptive, unfair, and anticompetitive labor practices that harm American workers. The Labor Task Force is yielding significant benefits for Americans. For example, the FTC recently brought a series of cases that charged the recruiters or leadership of several multi-level marketing companies (MLMs) and an investment training and business scheme (which is also an MLM) with making misleading claims about what participants might earn.
