Employer Groups Want Harmony Among ‘Joint Employer’ Rules (1)

Business advocates would welcome an EEOC regulation that makes it harder to hold multiple businesses liable for workplace discrimination and harassment, bringing it in harmony with rules pending at two other federal labor agencies. But worker groups say that approach would weaken job protections.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission plans to ‘clarify’ its stance on when two or more companies can be considered a “joint employer” of particular workers. Management and worker representatives are scratching their heads about what will be in a proposed rule the EEOC plans to issue before the end of the year.

But both groups have ...