The Department of Labor’s Wage & Hour Division (WHD) has issued an Administrator’s Interpretation (AI)1 establishing new standards for determining joint employment under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA). While it remains to be seen how much deference will be accorded such sub-regulatory guidance,2 the WHD will likely use the AI as justification for charging a greater number of employers with violations of these statutes on the grounds they are joint employers with the offending entity.
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