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Labor/Employment

Dec. 15, 2017

Federal labor board reverses ‘joint employer’ rule

The National Labor Relations Board decided to limit when parent companies are liable for the alleged violations of their subsidiaries.

In a move both momentous and predictable, the National Labor Relations Board decided Thursday to limit when parent companies are liable for the alleged violations of their subsidiaries, a reversal of the board’s landmark 2015 Browning-Ferris ruling.

In Browning-Ferris Industries Co., U.S. National Labor Relations Board, No. 32 RC-109684, a board composed of three Democrats and two Republicans found that parent companies and subsidiar...

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