“NRF is pleased that the NLRB has dropped its appeal of the District Court’s decision to nullify the Board’s joint employer final rule. The final rule created unnecessary ambiguity in this important area of federal labor law. Retail employers, and the millions of Americans they employ,...
As previously reportedhereandhere, the NLRB’s 2023 final rule on joint-employer status was challenged by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. On February 26, 2024, the district court issued a stay, and later ruled against implementation of the final rule. On May 7, 2024, the NLRB filed a no...
The final rule, which goes into effect on April 27, restores NLRB’s long-held joint-employer standard that was in place prior to the 2015 Browning-Ferris decision. United States Waste & Recycling News
The National Labor Relations Board has opened a formal rule‐making to change an Obama‐era ruling on joint employer status that would allow leased and temporary employees, as well as independent contractors, to vote on unionization alongside the employer's own workforce....
Although the final rule provides employers, unions, and employees with much needed clarity as to whether certain business relationships will rise to the level of being a joint employer relationship, some questions still remain. How will the rule be interpreted and applied in future cases? Will the...
The new joint-employer rule becomes effective Dec. 26. AHLA, whichpreviously submitted commentsto the NLRB protesting the rule change, said the new rule will limit opportunities for small businesses and entrepreneurs and threaten the franchising model. ...
Re: Proposed Rule, National Labor Relations Board; Standard for Determining Joint-Employer Status Under the National Labor Relations Act (87 Fed. Reg. 54,641-54,663, September 7, 2022) Dear Ms. Rothschild: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce (“the...
The NLRB rescinded its 2020 joint employer rule as part of its 2023 regulation that set a new standard, but that later measure was blocked by a federal judge and abandoned by the board. The Google-Cognizant case was decided prior to the issuance of the defunct 2023 rule. From Vote...
There has been buzz for many months about the likely decision of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to expand the definition of “joint employer” under our federal labor laws. Two weeks ago, the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions held...
Several recent decisions by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have analyzed the balance between employer property rights and union organization rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). These decisions appear to shift the balance in favor of employers. It is anticipated that the...