Companies that use franchise, staffing, and contract arrangements have said wider liability makes them responsible for workers they don’t control. Unions and worker advocates say a broader approach cuts through complicated arrangements to give employees a voice with those actually deciding the terms and conditions of their jobs. The board’s Democrat majority in 2015 used Browning-Ferris to expand joint employer liability to include situations in which a business exerts indirect control over workers. A Republican-majority board in December used
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