News & Analysis as of August 7, 2025

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What Federal Save Local Business Legislation Could Mean for the Joint Employer Standard

Fox Rothschild LLP on 8/6/2025

Legislation is moving through Congress that, if enacted, would establish a new joint employer standard and end some of the uncertainty businesses have faced the past several years whenever a new party won the White House. ...more

Labor Department Rescinds Pro-Franchise Joint-Employment Rule

Polsinelli on 8/9/2021

On July 29, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor announced it is rescinding a final rule issued just last year (2020 Final Rule) that sought to clarify the standard for finding two separate entities to be “joint employers”...more

Employers Receive Guidance in DOL Final Joint Employer Rule

Akerman LLP - HR Defense on 2/24/2020

Effective March 16, 2020, employers will be able to use a four-factor balancing test in determining joint employment status under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), based on the new final rule adopted by the Department of...more

The Department of Labor’s 2020 Vision: The New Joint Employer Standard under the Fair Labor Standards Act

Foley & Lardner LLP on 2/6/2020

A significant amount of legal activity has taken place recently in the area of joint employment. Joint employment exists when more than one entity is deemed to be a worker’s employer. Typically, a direct employer and a...more

Final Rule Issued by US Department of Labor Clarifying Joint Employment under the Fair Labor Standards Act

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 2/6/2020

As a follow up to its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking issued in April 2019, the US Department of Labor (DOL) announced on January 12, 2020, the issuance of a Final Rule to revise and clarify the standard for joint employment...more

DOL Issues Final Rule Addressing Joint Employer Status Under the Fair Labor Standards Act

Epstein Becker & Green on 1/22/2020

On Thursday, January 16, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (“WHD”) published in the Federal Register the much-anticipated Final Rule regarding joint employer status under the Fair Labor Standards...more

“Are you my employer?” Department of Labor clarifies joint employer status with new final rule

Bricker Graydon LLP on 1/17/2020

On January 16, 2020, the Department of Labor (DOL) published a final rule that brings much-needed clarity to employers on how to determine “joint employer” status under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) when an employee...more

The Relationship Talk: DOL Issues New Rules on Joint Employer Status

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 12/20/2019

When do your business relationships make you a joint employer? Fortunately, the DOL recently published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking with changes to regulations regarding when two or more entities should be treated as...more

January 2019: The Top 16 Labor And Employment Law Stories

Fisher Phillips on 2/11/2019

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

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