Introduction - On 13 June 2023, the National Labor Relations Board held, in The Atlanta Opera, Inc., that it would return to a prior, employee-friendly standard for determining whether workers are employees or independent...more
Last week, the National Labor Relations Board reversed long-standing precedent and ruled that a company may be a joint employer of another company’s workers if it has the right to control those workers, even if that right is...more
9/4/2015
/ Browning-Ferris Industries of California Inc. ,
Collective Bargaining ,
Franchisee ,
Franchisors ,
Independent Contractors ,
Joint Employers ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Staffing Agencies ,
Subcontractors ,
Unions
“These violations reflect one of the problems we’ve found in the oil and gas extraction industry—employees are improperly classified as exempt from the FLSA and are not paid the proper wages in accordance with federal law.” -...more