Partner Todd Lebowitz is quoted in a Nov. 2 Law360 Employment Authority article titled “No DOL Joint Employment Standard As NLRB Finishes Rule,” which concerns the Department of Labor failing to specify “when employers are jointly liable for federal wage and hour violations, even as the National Labor Relations Board has now finalized its own rule on the issue.”
"In the abstract, it would be helpful to have a joint employer rule that took the statute and provided examples, provided more clarity and provided more guidance so that businesses would have a better idea of whether they were at risk of being a joint employer," Lebowitz tells Law360.
"But I think so long as Julie Su is acting secretary, the business community would rather not have the kind of certainty that she would advocate for," he adds.