America’s small businesses would have created hundreds of thousands more jobs over the past three years if not for an Obama-era mistake by the National Labor Relations Board. The NLRB has an opportunity to correct the error. At issue is Browning-Ferris Industries, a case the board decided in 2015. BFI created a new definition of “joint employer” under the National Labor Relations Act and saddled employers with a broad and ill-defined test for determining when they might share liability for the actions of another business’s...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 13, 2019 20:26 UTC