Legal Backgrounders

October 23, 2015

Legal Backgrounders

After Browning-Ferris: The Ballooning Definition of “Employer” and Implications for NLRB, EEOC, and OSHA

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By Nathaniel M. Glasser and Stuart M. Gerson, Members of Epstein Becker & Green P.C., and Daniel J. Green, an Associate with the firm.

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