Source: AGSAFE, 10/7/17


The House Education and Workforce Committee voted to approve the Republican-sponsored “Save Local Businesses Act,” which seeks to change both the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) and the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) to require that a company exert “direct, actual, and immediate” control of a worker to be considered a joint employer of another company’s employees.

The bill is largely in response to the National Labor Relations Board’s (“NLRB”) 2015 decision in the Browning-Ferris case where the Board extended joint employer liability under the NLRA to companies with mere “indirect control” over another company’s employees. You can read more about the Browning-Ferris decision and the status of the appeal, which is still pending, here.