The United States Department of Labor today released new regulations that dramatically change the existing rules on when two businesses are “joint employers” under federal wage and hour laws.
I’ve previously discussed the changing rules in some prior posts here and here, so you should catch up there first if this is the first
My colleague, Jarad Lucan, returns today with a very special post on a ground-breaking week at the NLRB. For Connecticut employers, the decisions change a lot of what has been going on at the NLRB for the last several years.
Back in January of 2013, I wrote an article for the Connecticut Law Tribune entitled
For the last six years, you haven’t seen much on this blog about changes to federal employment laws because, well, there just weren’t any. What we DID see, however, were changes to regulations and enforcement orders.
Nearly six months into the new Trump administration, we’re now starting to see significant shifts in the federal regulatory
By now, it’s really not a big surprise when the NLRB reverse course on a prior decision. This week, the NLRB did it again. My colleague, Jarad Lucan, provides this quick update on temporary/contract employees being allowed to join unions. Read on.
In 2004 the National Labor Relations Board in its Oakwood Care Center case
It’s hard getting excited about joint employment.
In fact, it’s pretty yawn-inducing. (Seriously, get a cup of coffee before reading this.)
But a few weeks back, the Department of Labor issued some new guidance on the topic that has been making the rounds
2007 seems like yesterday.
And yet, eight years after I started this blog and over 1800 posts later (and a Hall of Fame entry), I’m pretty sure 2007 WASN’T yesterday.
So for this year’s anniversary post, I thought I would capture what I think are some of the biggest storylines from the last eight years.
Can an employee work for more than one employer at the same time? Under a theory of law called “joint employment”, the answer is yes.
But how do you make that determination?
Suppose a private bus company provides services all over Connecticut. It’s largest customer happens to be a very large private university in the
“How You Doin’? said the character Joey from the TV show “Friends“. I say that here because this post is about the “joint employer” test for the Fair Labor Standards Act and its an otherwise dry post.
“I know!” (You might be saying, if you were Monica from that same show.)
“Could that BE
While I dig back out from vacation, my colleague Jon Orleans forwarded this update on a recent case in the Second Circuit. While the case is from New York, it may ultimately have some implications in Connecticut if it is appealed. 
A recent decision from the Southern District of New York certifies an FLSA