Return to a direct control standard for joint employers
What the document says“DOL and NLRB should return to the long-standing approach to defining joint employers based on direct and immediate control.”
A joint employer standard determines when one company is legally responsible for another's workers, which matters most for franchises and contractors. The chapter asks Congress to enact the Save Local Business Act to codify the narrower definition.
What the document actually says“DOL and NLRB should return to the long-standing approach to defining joint employers based on direct and immediate control.”
Go back to the older test for when two firms share a worker. It turns on direct control.
Sometimes two firms both count as a worker's boss. That matters for franchises. The book wants the narrower old test back.
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