Blog Post

Dec 1, 2016

A Fresh Take on the Horizontal Joint Employment Theory: Conditional Certification for Subway Employees Denied

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Earlier this year, the DOL’s Wage-Hour Division issued a much-publicized Administrator Interpretation on what employers constitute joint employers, including an explanation of how two or more employers under common ownership can constitute “horizontal” joint employers.  As articulated by the WHD’s sweeping pronouncement, it appeared that virtually any jointly-owned entities might constitute joint employers, at least in the eyes of the WHD.

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