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Federal Court in Texas Strikes Down NLRB Joint Employer Rule and Reinstates Prior Trump Era Rule

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On Friday, March 8, 2024, the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Texas entered an order that struck down the National Labor Relations Board's recently adopted 2023 regulations defining joint employer...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

NLRB Issues Rule Expanding Definition of Joint Employer

The National Labor Relations Board recently issued a final rule broadening who may be considered a joint employer of another employer’s employees under the National Labor Relations Act....more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

NLRB Independent Contractor Test Gives More Workers Union Organizing Rights

The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “the Board”) continued its course of reversing Trump-era law by issuing a decision last month that will make it easier for workers to establish “employee” – as opposed to...more

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NLRB Reinstates Obama-Era Independent Contractor Test

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On June 13, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) carried on with its trend of reversing Trump-era precedent. In its 3-1 decision, The Atlanta Opera, Inc., the NLRB overturned the Trump NLRB’s 2019 decision,...more

Cozen O'Connor

Employment Law Now VI-120 - Joint Employer Ping Pong

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This episode discusses the NLRB's proposed new September 2022 joint employer test in the context of the historical shifting political winds, and what it may mean for employers....more

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The Never-Ending Story? NLRB Proposes New Rule Shifting Back to Broad Definition of ‘Joint Employer’

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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) just proposed a controversial new rule that could soon make it easier for workers to be considered employees of more than one entity for labor relations purposes. The Biden...more

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Missouri Court Of Appeals Affirms: Pet Sitters Are Not Independent Contractors

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On October 27, 2020, in 417 Pet Sitting, LLC v. Division of Employment Security (Pet Sitting LLC), the Western District of the Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed the decision by the Missouri Department of Labor, Labor and...more

Proskauer - California Employment Law

Time Spent By Employees In Exit Searches Is Compensable

Frlekin v. Apple, Inc., 2020 WL 5225699 (9th Cir. 2020) - Earlier this year, the California Supreme Court answered a question certified to it by the Ninth Circuit: “Is time spent on the employer’s premises waiting for,...more

Franczek P.C.

DOL’s Joint Employer Test Ruled Illegal

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On September 8, 2020, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York struck down portions of a January 2020 Final Rule issued by the Department of Labor. The Final Rule provided a new test for...more

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New York Court Vacates DOL’s Joint Employer Rule

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Judge Woods of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on September 8 vacated the US Department of Labor’s new test for joint employment, which focuses only on the putative joint employer’s right to...more

Payne & Fears

Key California Employment Law Cases: February 2020

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Frlekin v. Apple, Inc., -- Cal. -- (2020) - Summary:  The time employees spent on Apple’s premises waiting for and undergoing a mandatory exit search of personal belongings was compensable as “hours worked” under Wage...more

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National Labor Relations Board Tightens Standard for Joint Employer Status

A business is a joint employer of another employer’s employees only if the two employers share or codetermine the employees’ essential terms and conditions of employment, according to a recently unveiled and long-awaited...more

Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP

Engaging Independent Contractors in the Gig Economy: 3 Things for Employers to Know

With more and more individuals taking on the so-called “side hustle” of driving for Uber or even entirely leaving the traditional 9 to 5 work life and opting to make the “gig economy” work as their full time occupation,...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Independent Contractors Under U.S. Law: Knowing Your ABCs

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A recent trend in U.S. employment law has been the adoption of stricter and stricter tests for when a worker may be classified as an independent contractor rather than an employee. Independent contractor relationships are...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

What You Need to Know About New California Employment Law Going into Effect in 2020

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As a notorious trend-setter in the employment law realm, California ranks among the toughest in the nation when it comes to regulations imposed on employers that conduct business within the state. Accordingly, compliance with...more

Holland & Knight LLP

New California Law Codifies – and Expands – Strict ABC Test for Independent Contractor Status

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill (AB) 5 into law on Sept. 18, 2019, codifying the strict "ABC" test for employee versus independent contractor classification adopted by the California Supreme Court in Dynamex...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same: Worker Classification in the Gig Economy - Labor & Employment Newsletter

What Is the “Gig Economy”? The “gig economy” is the catchall term for an ever-growing range of temporary, flexible, autonomous work arrangements that are often enabled by technology platforms, such as websites or apps that...more

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Lovin' It: Ninth Circuit Rules McDonald's is Not a Joint Employer with Franchisee in California

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In a case that should grab the attention of franchisors across the country, a panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that McDonald’s Corporation is not the joint employer of the employees of a...more

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Lovin' It: Ninth Circuit Rules McDonald's is Not a Joint Employer with Franchisee in California

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In a case that should grab the attention of franchisors across the country, a panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that McDonald’s Corporation is not the joint employer of the employees of a...more

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McDonald’s Prevails Against Joint Employer Theory in Ninth Circuit

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The Ninth Circuit ruled on October 1, 2019, that McDonald’s cannot be held liable for wage and hour violations allegedly committed by a franchisee in California because McDonald’s did not exert sufficient control over the...more

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California Court Delivers Trucking Company a Meal/Rest Break Win and Limits the Application of the ABC Test

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California recently ruled in an employment class action regarding misclassification of trucking industry owner-operators as independent contractors. The ruling is a win for...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Virtually Independent Contractors or Employees - Department of Labor Takes a Look

In a recent opinion letter, the United States Department of Labor concluded that workers who use a “virtual marketplace” business – similar to Uber, DoorDash, Instacart, or Rover – are independent contractors and not...more

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Physician not a Hospital “Employee” for Purpose of Title VII Action

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On May 8, 2019, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirmed its test to determine whether a worker qualifies as an “employee” as defined by and subject to Title VII protections. ...more

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Harrison M. Thorne Publishes "Retroactive Application of Dynamex," in The Los Angeles Lawyer, March 2019, Volume 42, No. 1

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FOR NEARLY 30 YEARS, California businesses have used the Borello test (so named after S.G. Borello & Sons, Inc. v. Department of Industrial Relations) to determine whether workers should be classified as employees or...more

Jackson Walker

New Fifth Circuit Decision Upholds Independent Contractor Status for Directional Driller Consultants Under the Fair Labor...

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Claim by Directional Drillers for Overtime Pay. The boom for domestic energy producers, particularly in the Permian Basin, has been accompanied by the companion challenge of how to compensate transient oilfield professionals...more

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