# Joint Employer Status Under the National Labor Relations Act
> **US National Labor Relations Board** · Final rule. · Published 2020-02-26 · Effective 2020-04-27 · 85 FR 11184
## Document
- **Document number:** 2020-03373
- **Category:** final-rule
- **Agency:** US National Labor Relations Board
- **Federal Register citation:** 85 FR 11184
- **CFR reference:** 29 CFR 103
- **Publication date:** 2020-02-26
- **Effective date:** 2020-04-27
## Abstract

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) has decided to issue this final rule for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA or Act) by establishing the standard for determining whether two employers, as defined in Section 2(2) of the Act, are a joint employer under the NLRA. The Board believes that this rulemaking will foster predictability and consistency regarding determinations of joint-employer status in a variety of business relationships, thereby enhancing labor-management stability, the promotion of which is one of the principal purposes of the Act. Under this final rule, an entity may be considered a joint employer of a separate employer's employees only if the two share or codetermine the employees' essential terms and conditions of employment, which are exclusively defined as wages, benefits, hours of work, hiring, discharge, discipline, supervision, and direction.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/02/26/2020-03373/joint-employer-status-under-the-national-labor-relations-act)
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