The rule — announced late last month by the National Labor Relations Board –- sets new standards for determining when two companies should be considered “joint employers” under the National Labor Relations Act.
It sounds wonky. But essentially, the rule could widen the number of companies that must participate in labor negotiations alongside their franchisees or independent contractors. For example, it might require Burger King to bargain with workers even though most of its U.S. restaurants are owned by franchisees. Or it could require Amazon to negotiate with delivery drivers who are employed by independent contractors.
Ok, the Amazon thing pissed me off. I realized that the drivers are illegally being classified as 1099 contractors. 1099 contractors are not allowed to have required schedules, not allowed to have mandatory meetings, and are required to have specific goals/periods/responsibilities in a contract with a definite term. Why the fuck isn’t the NLRB/DoL/IRS dropping the hammer on them for their illegal employment practices. They are skirting paying employment tax, they are abusing employees, they are skirting full-time benefit requirements. Fuck. Can someone with power please start cracking down on the abuse of 1099 tax codes.
Gotta vote for people who care.
Never blame those in power when it’s the constituency who put them there.
We can blame both tho
Spinning it as if those elected have no blame is absurd. They know what they’re doing.
I mean, abusers are never going away. They will always be there.
The answer is to prevent them from gaining power, which we routinely fail to do.
Too often those same politicians lied in order to get elected, then backtracked on promises.
It’s not the victims’ fault when the criminals win.
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Amazon uses contracted companies so if a union action happens or one of them gets caught running the 1099 scam Amazon can just cut ties and walk away. Amazon is clearly coordinating their contractors to violate labor law but there’s no regulation that can really get to them. Until now
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But the rule has changed, it’s adopted and goes into effect next month.
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Probably, I was just being pedantic. :-D