Lawmakers plan broad assault on ‘joint employer’ doctrine

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Lawmakers are planning to introduce broad legislation Thursday to reverse an Obama administration-era effort to vastly expand corporate legal liability.

The four lawmakers, three Republicans and one Democrat, seek to codify that the “joint employer” doctrine — when one business can be held legally responsible for workplace law violations at another business — can apply only under narrow circumstances, specifically when one business has had “direct control” over the other’s workers.

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