McKnight’s Senior Living October 27, 2023
The National Labor Relations Board has finalized the long-awaited joint-employer rule, the agency disclosed Thursday. The rule affects long-term care providers that use temporary or contract workers as well as operators that are part of franchises and others.
“If two entities are joint employers under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), both must bargain with the union that represents the jointly employed workers, both are potentially liable for unfair labor practices committed by the other, and both are subject to union picketing or other economic pressure if there is a labor dispute,” wrote Leah Shepherd, senior legal editor for Society for Human Resource Management.
The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking was published by the Federal Register on Sept. 6, 2022,...