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Sinema Pushes Back on Labor Board’s Planned Joint Employer Rule

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) teased a potential vote to overturn the National Labor Relations Board’s planned move to alter the joint-employer standard under federal labor law. Sinema said Tuesday that the rule proposed by the NLRB is “concerning,” and suggested she would vote to overturn the rule through a Congressional Review Act…

Labor Board’s New Joint Employer Rule Set for August Release

The National Labor Relations Board plans to complete its regulation governing how to determine when multiple companies jointly employ workers for purposes of federal labor law by August, the agency told a federal district court in Washington. The NLRB is in the process of reviewing the 13,000 public comments it…

California’s fast-food industry faces another landmark change

When pushback mounted last year against California’s controversial fast-food wage bill, known as the Fast Act, proponents tried to sap the resistance by dropping a provision that would have made restaurant franchisors accountable for the labor practices of franchisees. The bill passed without that backdoor effort to legally redefine licensee…