Labor and Employment Law Blog

The NLRB Just Made It Harder To Lasso Franchisors And Affiliated Businesses For The Alleged Sins Of Their Compatriots

In 2015, the NLRB adopted a more relaxed standard for determining when an entity could be considered a joint employer and thus liable for alleged workplace wrongs along with a direct employer. Of course the result of the loosening of the reins meant an increase in the number of defendants listed on complaints as potentially […]

February 25, 2020 | 2 min read | Tagged: Joint Employer Status, Joint Employers, NLRA, NLRB

Christy D. Joseph Of Counsel

Back-peddling on Who Is the Employer: The NLRB Proposes a Revision to the Joint Employer Standard

In a 2015 controversial decision, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) ruled that, for purposes of federal labor law violations, a business may be deemed a joint employer of another company’s employees if the business had “indirect” control over those employees. The NLRB recently announced that it would roll back on this decision, proposing a […]

September 26, 2018 | 1 min read | Tagged: Joint Employer Status, Joint Employers, NLRB

Amina Mousa Former Associate