Wage & Hour Issues New Interpretation of “Joint Employment”
Davi Bowen
February 11 2016
The Obama administration regulatory juggernaut continues, and now the Department of Labor’s Wage & Hour Division has issued a new interpretation of what constitutes “joint employment.” We asked Chris Schulte of CJ-Lake LLC, who advises AmericanHort on labor and employment matters, to walk us through what it all means.
For years, there has been a fairly clear understanding of the employer-employee relationship with respect to who the “employee” is and their “employer” is. Generally speaking, an “employer” is the company with the power to hire, fire, direct, and pay a worker. Th...
Author: Davi Bowen
Davi Bowen serves as AmericanHort’s Government Relations and Grassroots Representative. Davi assists with federal legislative and regulatory issues, and with the Lighthouse grassroots partnership program. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Sciences, and a minor in International Agriculture, from Pennsylvania State University. His experience includes work in the agriculture and landscape industries in Brazil and the U.S., as well as an internship with USDA’s National Institute for Food and Agriculture. He speaks fluent Portuguese, English, and Spanish.
davib@americanhort.org
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