{"id":712,"date":"2018-03-02T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/?p=712"},"modified":"2022-06-05T14:26:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T00:26:21","slug":"nlrb-reinstates-browning-ferris-joint-employer-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/news-and-information\/nlrb-reinstates-browning-ferris-joint-employer-test\/","title":{"rendered":"NLRB Reinstates Browning-Ferris Joint Employer Test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On February 26, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) vacated its December 2017 joint employer ruling in Hy-Brand, following\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nlrb.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/attachments\/basic-page\/node-5976\/OIG%20Report%20Regarding%20Hy_Brand%20Deliberations.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a report by its Office of the Inspector General (OIG)<\/a>\u00a0that an NLRB board member improperly participated in that ruling. The board member\u2019s former law firm represents Leadpoint, a party in\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nlrb.gov\/news-outreach\/news-story\/board-issues-decision-browning-ferris-industries\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Browning-Ferris Industries<\/em><\/a>, the landmark 2015 case in which Browning-Ferris was found to be a joint employer with Leadpoint. The OIG determined that the level to which the Browning-Ferris dissent was incorporated into the\u00a0<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nlrb.gov\/news-outreach\/news-story\/nlrb-overrules-browning-ferris-industries-and-reinstates-prior-joint\" target=\"_blank\">Hy-Brand<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>deliberations turned it into a continuation of the first case; although they started out as two distinct cases, it amounted in effect to a \u201cdo over\u201d for the Browning-Ferries parties, and for this reason, the board member should have recused himself. This means that the Browning-Ferris test for determining joint employer status based on indirect control over employment, which was overturned by Hy-Brand, is once again the legal standard measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 26, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) vacated its December 2017 joint employer ruling in Hy-Brand, following\u00a0a report by its Office of the Inspector General (OIG)\u00a0that an NLRB board member improperly participated in that ruling. The board member\u2019s former law firm represents Leadpoint, a party in\u00a0Browning-Ferris Industries, the landmark 2015 case in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}