In light of last week’s guidance from the Department of Labor regarding joint employment under the Fair Labor Standards Act, employers may want to conduct a workforce audit to determine how they are currently using contract labor, legal experts say.
Administrator’s Interpretation No. 2016-1, issued by the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division Administrator David Weil, outlines common scenarios in which two or more employers jointly employ an employee and are thus jointly liable for compliance with the FLSA and the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act.
