Two leading business advocacy groups, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the International Franchise Association, have hired former federal labor board chair Philip Miscimarra to defend a Trump-era regulation on joint employment.
The Service Employees International Union seeks to overturn National Labor Relations Board regulation, finalized in 2020 by the then-Republican majority, that makes it harder to hold large companies accountable for violating franchised or sub-contracted workers’ labor rights.
The pro-business groups on Monday filed a motion at the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia, asking to provisionally admit Miscimarra as an attorney in the case. Judge Rudolph ...