Business Groups Move to Intervene in ‘Joint Employer’ Litigation

An industry coalition wants to join the Trump administration in defending a new rule narrowing joint-employer liability for wage violations against a lawsuit filed by 18 states.

Six leading business groups late Wednesday asked a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to intervene in the litigation and serve as co-defendants with the federal government in support of the Labor Department’s joint-employer rule. The regulation, which took effect in March, limits the scenarios in which multiple businesses can be liable under the Fair Labor Standards Act for failing to pay minimum wages ...