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Board Applies BFI to Create Joint Employers Even Though the Two Have No Plan for Future Business
Author(s) -
DeMaria Alfred T.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
management report for nonunion organizations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1530-8286
pISSN - 0745-4880
DOI - 10.1002/mare.30218
Subject(s) - business , joint (building) , work (physics) , labor relations , unit (ring theory) , plan (archaeology) , management , labour economics , economics , engineering , architectural engineering , mechanical engineering , mathematics education , mathematics , archaeology , history
Even though the two employers didn't have a contract and had no plans to work together in the future, the National Labor Relations Board said that Retro, an asbestos abatement company, and Green JobWorks, a provider of temporary labor to Retro, were joint employers. Thus, the election that the union petitioned for would be held in a unit of employees that included sole employees of each company ( Retro Environmental, Inc. and Green JobWorks, LLC , Case No. 05‐RC‐153468, August 5, 2016).