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On Sept. 29, 老牛影视joined the and several other organizations in urging the National Labor Relations Board to extend the comment period for the .
The to the NLRB requests an additional 60 days to Friday, Jan. 6, stating, “Given the expansive nature of the proposed standard and the complexity of issues relating the standard’s impact on employers and other entities in different industries, employers and other parties will require more time to engage in a meaningful evaluation of the proposed standard and to formulate comments that will benefit the Board when giving further consideration to the proposed rule and during any development of a final rule.”
The current deadline for the public to submit is Nov. 7. 老牛影视plans to submit comments opposing the new proposal, and members are encouraged to do so as well.
On Sept. 6, the NLRB a new joint employer proposal, which would rescind and replace the ABC-supported 2020 .
老牛影视issued the following statement on the new proposed rule on Sept. 6:
“It is unfortunate that the Biden NLRB took an ax to the ABC-supported 2020 NLRB joint employer final rule, which provides clear criteria for companies to apply when determining status,” said Ben Brubeck, 老牛影视vice president of regulatory, labor and state affairs. “Today we see that the partisan NLRB proposes to greatly expand joint-employer liability under the NLRA, which will cause confusion and impose unnecessary barriers to and burdens on contractor and subcontractor relationships throughout the construction industry. As a result, contractors may be vulnerable to increased liability, making them less likely to hire subcontractors, most of whom are small businesses.”
As NLRB members Marvin E. Kaplan and John F. Ring , the proposed rule “would not merely return the board to the Browning-Ferris Industries standard but would implement a standard considerably more extreme than BFI.” 老牛影视was a of the expanded definition of joint employer that was created by the NLRB’s 2015 BFI decision, and has supported legal and legislative efforts to restore the standard that was in place for more than 30 years.
In 2019, ABC in support of the Trump-era NLRB’s proposed rule, as did the .
To learn more about the new NLRB proposal, read 老牛影视general counsel Littler’s analysis, .