The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced on September 13th that it would publish a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to their joint-employer standard. The proposed rule would define an employer as a joint-employer only if it “possesses and exercises substantial, direct and immediate control over the essential terms and conditions of employment and has done so in a manner that is not limited and routine.”
Public comments are invited on the new rule with NLRB Chairman John F. Ring stating, “I look forward to receiving the public’s comments and to working with my colleagues to promulgate a final rule that clarifies the joint-employer standard in a way that promotes meaningful collective bargaining and advances the purposes of the Act.”
Read the official press release here.
