Evidence uncovered by the House Education and the Workforce Committee indicates that the Labor Department and the National Labor Relations Board coordinated on their new controversial new "joint employer" rules, which vastly expand legal liability for large businesses. Department officials have said there was no contact between the two entities on the subject.
"The committee has received new information that raises concerns about the veracity of the department's Nov. 18 response, as well as subsequent communications," committee Chairman John Kline, R-Minn., said in a Jan. 19 letter to Labor Department Secretary Tom Perez.
Kline's letter referred to data provided to the committee by the labor board, an independent agency that is the main enforcer of federal labor laws. The data included messages that indicated that on at least two occasions last year officials from the department and the board's general counsel's office discussed joint conferences regarding the rule. It is not clear if the meetings were held.
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I don't get it. Can we start off with the definition of a "joint employer" in the text, or are we all tasked with looking up every term used in the article in order to understand it?
ReplyDeleteSorry, I'm 62 and have never been or had a "joint employee" that I know of.