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Small Business Coalition Launches Accountability Initiative Highlighting Bipartisan Vote On Joint Employer Rule

Initial campaign includes bipartisan members in both chambers of Congress WASHINGTON – As Congress returns to Washington, D.C. from the summer work period, the Coalition to Save Local Businesses (CSLB) is launching an accountability initiative in the states represented by four lawmakers who played a pivotal role – both for and…

Restaurant Business: NLRB backs away from its push for a broadened joint employer standard—for now

Federal labor regulators have dropped their 10-year effort to routinely hold franchisors responsible for the employment policies and practices of franchisees. Or at least for now. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) revealed Friday that it would not appeal a federal court’s ruling that franchisor and franchisee should be regarded…

QSR Magazine: NLRB Ends Attempt to Expand Joint Employer Rule

Restaurants have won the battle against changing the joint employer rule. The National Labor Relations Board withdrew its appeal of a March ruling in the Fifth District Court of Texas that struck down the federal agency’s wider scope of what a joint employer should be. If the rule had gone into…