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Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA)

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Labor Department’s Proposed Four-Factor Rule Would Limit Joint Employment

Fisher Phillips on 4/2/2019

The U.S. Department of Labor just became the latest federal agency to propose a rule to limit the scope of joint employment liability, this time for wage and hour matters. If the rule released earlier yesterday is adopted in...more

No Fooling: DOL Announces Joint-Employer Proposal

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/2/2019

On April 1, 2019, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced that it will publish a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to amend its existing regulations regarding joint employment under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)....more

SuperVision Today - June 2017

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 6/9/2017

Editor's Note - Welcome to the second quarter edition of SuperVision, the e-newsletter of Spilman Thomas & Battle's Labor & Employment Group. The look of SuperVision may have changed, but the goal remains the same: to...more

Executive Order Creating Steps for Regulatory Review and Reform Could Target Burdensome Employment Rules

Littler on 2/28/2017

On Friday, President Trump issued an executive order, Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda ("the Order"), which calls for each federal agency to develop a regulatory reform task force to identify burdensome regulations for...more

Joint Employment Challenges Continue in 2016

Maynard Nexsen on 2/11/2016

The legal concept of “joint employment” exists when a person is employed by two or more entities, such that the employers are responsible, individually and jointly, to the employee for compliance with a particular statute or...more

DOL Sets Its Sights on Small Businesses in Recent Joint Employer Guidance

Cozen O'Connor on 1/25/2016

The NLRB made a splash when it laid out a new standard to capture employers previously thought to be outside the “joint employer” net with its Browning-Ferris decision in April 2015, and now the Department of Labor is making...more

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