Labor Board Vacates Recent Hy-Brand Joint-Employer Decision

Mealey's (February 27, 2018, 9:38 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Feb. 26 issued a one-page order vacating its decision on Dec. 14, 2017, in which the split labor board overruled Browning-Ferris Industries, 362 NLRB No. 186 (2015), and reinstated the joint-employer standard in place before that decision, finding that one NLRB member should have been disqualified from participating in the decision making (Hy-Brand Industrial Contractors, Ltd. and Brandt Construction Co., et al., Nos. 25–CA–163189, 25–CA–163208, 25–CA–163297, 25–CA–163317, 25–CA–163373, 25–CA–163376, 25–CA–163398, 25–CA–163414, 25–CA–164941, and 25–CA–164945, NLRB)....