On March 8, 2024, a federal district court in Texas vacated the National Labor Relations Board’s 2023 joint employer rule. The 2023 rule, which was set to take effect on March 11, would have expanded the joint employer test...more
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
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 5 (AB-5) on September 18, 2019, which adopts the “ABC test” for certain California employment laws. Soon after, on September 24, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th...more
If you are experiencing whiplash from the National Labor Relations Board’s wild ride of a year, you are not alone. In a surprising turn of events, on February 26, 2018, the NLRB vacated its decision in Hy-Brand Industrial...more
After the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) changed its joint employer standard in August 2015, two likely avenues to repeal that change emerged: Congress and the courts. In September of that year, congressional...more