Union Moves to Keep Joint Employer Case in Federal Court

By Josh Eidelson (Bloomberg) and Hassan A. Kanu (Bloomberg Law)

Organized labor is trying to continue its fight against the Trump labor board’s recent reversal on “joint employer” liability in federal court, arguing in a filing Jan. 4 that the board’s decision was “defective.”

The motion, which was brought by the Teamsters union and co-written by former Obama NLRB member Craig Becker, asks the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider its Dec. 22 order remanding to the labor board the precedent-setting Browning-Ferris Industries case. The litigation concerns when multiple companies can be held legally liable for unlawful treatment of ...