A discussion of the joint employer doctrine as it affects Professional Employer Organizations and their clients for purposes of vicarious liability, bargaining obligations, and vunerability to secondary boycotts.
A goal of many M&A transactions is to create synergies by combining operations and eliminating duplicated effort. Often, such restructuring results in personnel layoffs or plant closings, implicating the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN), which Congress enacted in the mid-1980s to require employers to provide advance warning of certain mass layoffs and plant closings.