NLRB’s ‘Joint Employer’ Standard Set for Regulatory Revamp (1)

The National Labor Relations Board announced that it will attempt to rework its legal standard for determining when one company jointly employs another firm’s workers, one of the most hotly contested issues in labor law over the past decade.

The NLRB plans to issue a notice of proposed rulemaking on joint employment in February, according to an item in the agency’s federal regulatory agenda released Friday. Jointly employing workers under federal labor law results in companies sharing both liability for unfair labor practices and responsibility for union bargaining.

An all-Republican NLRB issued a regulation setting an employer-friendly standard for joint ...