The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) last week released its strategic plan for the agency’s immediate future and this week that it was again extending – for a second time – the comment period for its proposed joint employer rule, which would make it harder for businesses to be held liable for labor violations committed…
Read More »Legislation has passed the Ohio state senate that exempts franchisors from joint employer status. Still subject to one final concurrence vote in the House before it is sent to the Governor for his signature, House bill 494 specifically exempts franchisors from any liability as a joint employer unless the franchisor specifically adopts joint employer status…
Read More »As we’ve reported before, the extended public comment period relating proposed changes to the definition of joint employer ends next Thursday, December 13. The proposed rule was published in the Federal Register in September and was extended an additional 30 days to allow for additional comments. If any of our readers have yet to comment…
Read More »The National Labor Relations Board this week extended the deadline for public comments on its proposed joint-employer rule for an extra month. The 60-day public comment period was scheduled to end on November 13, but the agency postponed that deadline now until December 13. Public comments will be accepted until that time and until December…
Read More »If the questions and skepticism of two judges for the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals are any indication, McDonalds does not meet the definition of a joint employer under California law. 9th Circuit Judges Susan Graber and Andrew Kleinfeld indicated their belief that McDonald’s relationship with its franchisees did not give it control over…
Read More »It may have been a long time coming, but the National Labor Relations Board is again moving to correct the egregious 2015 ruling on the joint employer definition. Yesterday, the NLRB released a draft rule that rolls back the new definition of joint employer the agency created in its Browning Ferris decision back in 2015.…
Read More »Speaking of the joint employer rule and NLRB, the heavyweight battle between the Golden Arches and Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the money and force behind the Fight for $15 and other worker advocacy initiatives, is just getting bigger and broader. McDonalds Corporation last week retained management-side law firm giants Littler Mendelson and Morgan Lewis…
Read More »Congress is pushing for a final resolution to the joint employer issue on both the regulatory and legislative fronts. First off this week, both Senate Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety Chairman Johnny Isakson (R-GA) and his House counterpart, Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Chairman Bradley Byrne (R-AL) sent letters asking all House and Senate members to…
Read More »Through the veil of the Fight for $15 movement that it has bankrolled, SEIU demanded that two of the republican members of the National Labor Relations Board recuse themselves this week from decisions involving a pending settlement of a major McDonald’s case. The settlement was rejected by an NLRB administrative law judge last month and…
Read More »In a new study recently released by the American Action Forum, the expanded definition of joint-employer is being blamed in large part for what appears to be a slowing in hotel industry growth and employment. In the wake of the 2015 Browning-Ferris decision, by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the annual franchise employment rate…
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