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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

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

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

Joint / Related / Common Employers: Are You at Risk

Dickinson Wright on 11/7/2016

In recent years, a number of cases have emerged in both Canada and the United States discussing new implications for companies deemed to be joint and related employers. Cases both from the United States and across Canada will...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

NLRB Discusses Joint Employment for the First Time Since Browning-Ferris

Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits... on 11/4/2015

The National Labor Relations Board, in one of its first applications of the Browning-Ferris decision, gave hope to non-union contracting entities engaged in franchising and subcontracting relationships. After an extensive...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

Browning-Ferris: The NLRB Redefines Joint-Employer Status

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP on 10/9/2015

On August 27, 2015, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) diverged from three decades of precedent by broadening the reach of its joint-employer test in a decision involving Browning-Ferris Industries (“BFI”), a waste...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 Ruling Expands Contractors’ Liability for the Actions of Subcontractors

PilieroMazza PLLC on 9/28/2015

In an August 27, 2015 split decision, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) announced a new standard for determining when businesses will be considered to be “joint employers,” significantly expanding the scope of joint...more

In Browning-Ferris, Businesses Lose As the Board Crafts a Solution in Search of a Problem

Benesch on 9/8/2015

Marking a sea-change in labor law and a departure from decades of settled precedent, the National Labor Relations Board formulated a new joint employer standard in August 27’s Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc....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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New NLRB Joint Employer Rule Stayed Until March 11, 2024

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

NLRB Casts Wider Joint-Employer Net With New Final Rule

Joint / Related / Common Employers: Are You at Risk

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

NLRB Discusses Joint Employment for the First Time Since Browning-Ferris

Energy Insights: An Update from the Third Quarter of 2015

Browning-Ferris: The NLRB Redefines Joint-Employer Status

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

Senate Panel Takes up Joint Employer Issue

House Hearing Addresses NLRB's New Joint Employer Standard

NLRB Ruling Expands Contractors’ Liability for the Actions of Subcontractors

In Browning-Ferris, Businesses Lose As the Board Crafts a Solution in Search of a Problem

NLRB Broadens Joint Employment Standard

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

NLRB’s New Joint Employer Standard Creates Enormous Uncertainty

NLRB Issues Long-Awaited Joint Employer Decision

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

Board’s Decision Revises Joint-Employer Status Test

NLRB’s Expanded “Joint Employers” Test: The Employers’ Perspective

Life After Browning-Ferris: What Employers Need to Know Under the New Joint Employer Regime

NLRB: When the Law is Not the Law – A Huge Change in Business Relationships

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