NLRB v. Browning-Ferris Industries

  1. July 03, 2018

    DC Circ. Mulls Review Of Browning-Ferris Joint Employer Row

    Browning-Ferris Industries urged a D.C. Circuit panel in oral arguments Tuesday not to resume review of an Obama-era decision from the National Labor Relations Board against the company expanding the joint employer standard that controls when multiple companies can be deemed responsible for workers.

  2. April 08, 2018

    Browning-Ferris Joint Employer Fight Lands Back At DC Circ.

    A split D.C. Circuit panel decided Friday that waste management company Browning-Ferris' appeal of the Obama-era expansion of the National Labor Relations Board's joint employer standard is back on, saying "extraordinary circumstances" trumped a previous order that kicked the case back to the NLRB. 

  3. March 13, 2018

    NLRB's Joint Employer Review Bid Premature, DC Circ. Hears

    Browning-Ferris Industries of California Inc. told the D.C. Circuit on Monday that it was "premature" for the National Labor Relations Board to ask that an order remanding the company's appeal of the board's expanded joint employer test be revoked, but the NLRB stuck to its guns a day later by arguing the circuit should take the case back.

  4. March 01, 2018

    NLRB Asks DC Circ. To Revive Look At Joint Employer Rules

    The National Labor Relations Board asked the D.C. Circuit on Thursday to revive its review of the Obama-era Browning-Ferris joint employment test in light of the board's decision Monday to scrap the Trump-era Hy-Brand test it approved last year.

  5. January 05, 2018

    Teamsters Asks DC Circ. To Rethink Browning-Ferris Remand

    The Teamsters asked the D.C. Circuit Thursday to undo its decision remanding an appeal by Browning-Ferris Industries of the National Labor Relations Board's joint employer standard, saying the board's recent ruling erasing that standard was "defective" since new board member Bill Emanuel should have been recused because his former firm represented BFI's contractor.

  6. December 22, 2017

    DC Circ. Sends Browning Ferris Case Back To NLRB

    The D.C. Circuit on Friday remanded a closely-watched appeal by Browning-Ferris Industries challenging the legality of the National Labor Relations Board's expanded test for determining joint employment back to the agency about a week after the labor board scrapped the BFI standard.

  7. March 09, 2017

    NLRB's Joint Employer Test Comes Under Fire At DC Circ.

    The National Labor Relations Board’s expanded definition of joint employment in a case involving a waste management company faced intense scrutiny at the D.C. Circuit Thursday, with one panel member saying the board “dropped the ball” in its legal analysis.

  8. November 15, 2016

    NLRB Joint Employer Test 'Unworkable,' DC Circ. Hears

    Browning-Ferris Industries took its final shots against the National Labor Relations Board in a closely watched D.C. Circuit appeal over the legality of the board's recently revised joint-employer standard, with the waste management company saying the new test "creates an amorphous, unworkable fog" for employers.

  9. October 27, 2016

    BFI Takes New Shots At NLRB Joint Employer Rule In DC Circ.

    Waste management company Browning-Ferris Industries again urged the D.C. Circuit on Wednesday to reject the National Labor Relations Board's recently revised joint-employer standard, saying that it will jeopardize a litany of third-party business agreements.

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