Punching In: High Stakes in Joint Employer Rule’s CRA Challenge

Monday morning musings for workplace watchers.

Joint Employer Rule and the CRA|EEOC Harassment Guidance Comments

Robert Iafolla: The National Labor Relations Board will need President Joe Biden’s help should Congress strike down the agency’s new rule that lowers the bar for multiple companies to be deemed joint employers of the same workers.

Lawmakers passing a Congressional Review Act resolution disapproving of the NLRB’s joint employer regulation wouldn’t just kill the rule. It would have the potential to lock in place the more business-friendly Trump-era standard in perpetuity.

But a Biden veto of a CRA resolution—which is very likely—would seemingly ...