NLRA, Subcontractors, Joint Employers

New NLRB Joint Employer Rule Stayed Until March 11, 2024

Foley & Lardner LLP on 3/5/2024

On October 26, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (the NLRB or the “Board”) issued its heavily-anticipated final rule (the “New Rule”) addressing the standard for determining joint-employer status under the National...more

Impact of Labor Board’s New Joint-Employer Rule on Construction Industry

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 12/28/2023

The National Labor Relations Board’s new final rule for determining joint-employer status under the National Labor Relations Act would find joint-employer status if one employer possesses the authority to control at least one...more

NLRB’s New Joint-Employer Rule: What It Means for Retailers and Other User Employers

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 11/8/2023

The National Labor Relations Board’s new Final Rule for determining joint-employer status under the National Labor Relations Act expands the current standard by allowing the Board to find joint-employer status if an entity...more

Navigating the New Terrain - NLRB's New Joint Employment Standard

Quarles & Brady LLP on 11/6/2023

On October 26, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a final rule on joint employment, reversing its previous standard set in 2020. Employers that have potential control or influence over another entity’s...more

OFCCP Week In Review: October 2023 #5

DirectEmployers Association on 10/30/2023

Wednesday, October 25, 2023: Senate Confirmed Nomination of Jessica Looman to Head US DOL’s Wage and Hour Division - Senator Sullivan Only Republican Voting in Favor - By a 51-46 largely party-line vote, the U.S. Senate...more

NLRB Casts Wider Joint-Employer Net With New Final Rule

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 10/30/2023

On October 26, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a final rule for joint-employer status that will make it far more likely for one business to be deemed a joint employer of another business’s employees...more

#WorkforceWednesday: Preparing for Biden's Vaccine Mandate, Mandate Pushback Begins, NLRA's Reach Expected to Expand - Employment...

Epstein Becker & Green on 10/6/2021

This week, we look at the COVID-19 vaccination requirements for federal contractors and how the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is creating a more expansive view of the employment relationship. Employers Prepare for...more

Another Joint Employment Development, And Still More Uncertainty

Foley & Lardner LLP on 12/5/2017

For the last several years, “joint employment” (whatever that now means legally) has been anything but the gift that keeps on giving for employers. First, joint employment became a tool that the previous Administration locked...more

Adventures in Joint Employment: the Browning-Ferris Saga Continues with an Appeal to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals

Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits... on 2/5/2016

Last week, Browning-Ferris Industries, the California-based waste management company, appealed two decisions issued by the National Labor Relations Board related to the definition of joint employer. Its appeal to the U.S....more

Energy Insights: An Update from the Third Quarter of 2015

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 10/19/2015

In this edition of Seyfarth Shaw’s Energy Insights Newsletter our Energy and Clean Technologies team covers important developments in Q3 2015 for the energy industry including 1) the latest initiatives from the Environmental...more

Congress Considers Amending NLRA to Require Direct Control for Joint Employer Findings

Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits... on 10/6/2015

On September 29, the House subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions held a legislative hearing to consider the Protecting Local Business Opportunity Act, H.R. 3459. This bill, which is mirrored in the Senate,...more

Senate Panel Takes up Joint Employer Issue

Littler on 10/6/2015

A week after a House subcommittee held a hearing on the National Labor Relations Board's new joint employer standard, it was the Senate's turn to address the aftermath of the Board's Browning-Ferris decision. In...more

House Hearing Addresses NLRB's New Joint Employer Standard

Littler on 9/30/2015

Members of the House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions held a hearing on a bill that would undo the new joint employer standard the National Labor Relations Board recently established. As previously...more

NLRB Broadens Joint Employment Standard

K&L Gates LLP on 9/4/2015

Last week, the National Labor Relations Board reversed long-standing precedent and ruled that a company may be a joint employer of another company’s workers if it has the right to control those workers, even if that right is...more

NLRB Delivers New Joint-Employer Standard - Decision Leaves Franchisors, Contractors, Parent Companies, and Other Employers...

Holland & Knight LLP on 9/4/2015

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board), in a long-anticipated 3-2 decision along party lines, established a new and broader standard for determining whether two separate companies will be deemed joint employers...more

NLRB’s New Joint Employer Standard Creates Enormous Uncertainty

Foley & Lardner LLP on 9/3/2015

Late last week, the National Labor Relations Board published a decision that will make many business leaders’ heads spin. By pronouncing a new legal standard to be used to determine if a business is a “joint employer” of...more

NLRB Issues Long-Awaited Joint Employer Decision

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 9/3/2015

A recent ruling of the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) dramatically expands the circumstances in which the Board will hold companies responsible for the labor practices of their staffing agencies,...more

The Times They Are A-Changin: National Labor Relations Board Revises The Joint-Employer Test After More Than Thirty Years

Orrick - Employment Law and Litigation on 9/3/2015

After more than 30 years, the National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”) has concluded that it was time to change the standard for determining when companies are to be considered joint employers under the National Labor...more

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