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Brett Bartlett was quoted in a May 17 story "Blurry, Evolving Joint-Employment Guidance Tough for Employers to Navigate, Experts Say" by Bloomberg BNA on how broad federal and judicial interpretations...
Brett Bartlett was quoted in a May 17 story "Blurry,
Evolving Joint-Employment Guidance Tough for Employers to Navigate,
Experts Say" by Bloomberg BNA on how broad federal and
judicial interpretations of joint employment seem poised to revert
to earlier, narrower definitions, but in the interim employers are
struggling to navigate varied guidance on what the relationship
means and how it is determined. Bartlett said that risks arising
under labor and employment laws, and particularly those affecting
employee pay, increase and become perceptively exaggerated when the
guardrails are blurry, which is the case with current wage and hour
law regarding joint employment.
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