Labor Department Issues Clarification Of Guidelines For Joint Employment

Mealey's (January 22, 2016, 8:50 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) on Jan. 20 released an Administrator’s Interpretation that identifies common scenarios in which two or more employers jointly employ a worker and are thus jointly liable for compliance under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA)....