Congressional Labor Caucus Statement on NLRB’s Joint Employer Rule

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Congressional Labor Caucus Co-Chairs Representatives Donald Norcross (D-NJ), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Steven Horsford (D-NV), and Mark Pocan (D-WI) released the following statement on the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) Joint-Employer Standard Final Rule:

“We applaud the NLRB for consistently prioritizing workers and issuing this strong new joint-employer standard. This rule will protect workers' collective bargaining rights by requiring employers that have control over workplace issues such as wages and working conditions to be at the bargaining table. This new standard is an important step forward to effectively enforce the National Labor Relations Act.”

On October 26, the NLRB issued its Final Rule addressing the Standard for Determining Joint-Employer Status under the NLRA. The new standard rescinds the prior Board’s 2020 final rule and establishes that an entity may be considered a joint employer of a group of employees if each entity has an employment relationship with the employees and they share or codetermine one or more of the employees’ essential terms and conditions of employment.