Construction contractors and organized labor are keeping their eyes on a federal court in Texas, watching for the next development in a court challenge to the Biden administration’s standard redefining what constitutes a “joint employer.”
The National Labor Relations Board last Oct. 27 issued an administration-supported final standard that provided a more expansive definition of joint employer than its predecessor, which was issued in 2020 under the Trump administration. The Biden standard would rescind the Trump version.
