Sinema Pushes Back on Labor Board’s Planned Joint Employer Rule

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) teased a potential vote to overturn the National Labor Relations Board’s planned move to alter the joint-employer standard under federal labor law.

Sinema said Tuesday that the rule proposed by the NLRB is “concerning,” and suggested she would vote to overturn the rule through a Congressional Review Act resolution. Under the CRA, Congress can reverse an agency’s rulemaking with a simple majority in both chambers.

“What we have seen in the proposal is very, very concerning,” Sinema said at an event sponsored by the International Franchise Association, which is lobbying Congress to overturn the NLRB rule ...