NLRB’s Joint Employer Rule Triggers ‘Mess’ Over Court Review

A pair of dueling challenges to the National Labor Relations Board’s rule on joint employment has teed up a complex debate over jurisdiction that the US Supreme Court may need to resolve.

A coalition of business groups led by the US Chamber of Commerce filed a lawsuit against the NLRB’s new rule in a Texas district court. But the Service Employees International Union, which is broadly supportive of the regulation, filed a petition for review in the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

“It’s likely to be a godawful, complicated mess,” Richard Pierce, an ...