NLRB’s New Joint Employer Standard Threatens Business Formation and Job Creation

Congress Should Rein in Labor Board’s Pro-Big Labor Activism

 

Trey Kovacs • February 2, 2016

 

In August 2015, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) unilaterally changed the definition of joint employment in a way that could expose tens of thousands of businesses across the United States to increased costs and liability. The NLRB’s action will block a path toward entrepreneurship, reduce job creation, expand employer liability, increase employment insurance costs, lead to a surge in lawsuits, and disrupt thriving business models. The underlying motive of the NLRB’s move is to ease union organizing.....

 

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