How ‘joint employer’ ruling impacts IT outsourcing customers

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling in late August that companies using workers employed by a business, such as staffing agency or service providers, may now, in certain circumstances, be mutually responsible for any labor violations of that external partner.Previously, the NLRB’s standard for joint employment required that a company have direct control over an individual’s working conditions. However, citing the steady increase of third-party staffing and sub-contractin