Analysis: NLRB Ruling Could Upset Franchise Businesses

Steve Bernstein was quoted in Corporate Counsel on August 31, 2015. The article “Analysis: NLRB Ruling Could Upset Franchise Businesses” discussed the National Labor Relations Board's long-awaited ruling on the Browning-Ferris Industries case that reworks the definition of “joint employer” in a manner that could cause major headaches for many companies.

“In-house counsel would be wise to monitor where this goes once it leaves the board,” Steve told CorpCounsel.com. “In other words, this is now going to work its way through 26 regions [of the NLRB] on an array of fact patterns that are necessarily going to differ from this. That I think will be well worth watching.”

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