Unions Press Labor Board to Abandon Joint Employer Rulemaking

The National Labor Relations Board should stop attempting to issue regulations on joint employer classification, the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union said in a petition to the board.

The NLRB instead should revoke a Trump-era rule and shape the issue through litigation, the unions said in their petition, shared exclusively with Bloomberg Law Thursday.

The 2020 rule, which narrowed the categories that could trigger a joint employer finding, is “inconsistent” with common law and “frustrates the core policy” of the National Labor Relations Act, they said.

The board issued a subsequent rule last year widening those categories ...