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.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing indexed comes close. No indexed document defines joint employment at the Labor Department or the National Labor Relations Board, and the Save Local Business Act is not in the indexed record. The candidate rules concern the Defense Production Act, student loans, farm worker wage rates and airspace. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.