Punching In: Why Industry Wants in on Joint-Employer Litigation

Monday morning musings for workplace watchers

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Ben Penn: The business community’s bid last week to butt into the lawsuit over the Labor Department’s joint-employer rule was motivated by factors that could influence decision-making around other regulatory lawsuits in the run-up to the presidential election.

The business coalition had lobbied heavily to get the Trump administration to take an industry-friendly approach to joint-employment liability, so it shouldn’t have come as a surprise that it would file a motion to intervene as a co-defendant and help defend the rule ...