Citing “changing economic circumstances, particularly the recent dramatic growth in contingent employment relationships,” in Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc., 362 NLRB No. 186 (August 27, 2015), a 3-2 National Labor Relations Board majority (Pearce, Hirozawa, McFerran) significantly revised and broadened the standard for assessing joint-employer status under the National Labor Relations Act. The primary justification for the Board’s sweeping departure from the current standard was that it did not “best serve the Act’s policies of encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining,” considering the expansion of workplace arrangements including a diversity of subcontracting and contingent employment relationships since the 1990s.  Click here to read more.