Joint employment can mean different things to different people. For stoners, it could mean a groovy new job selling weed at the dispensary. For rheumatologists, it could mean hiring a new medical assistant to check elbows and knees.

But for most everyone else, it has nothing to do with joints at all. Joint employment just means that two companies both serve as the employer of an employee.

Last week, the Department of Labor (DOL) proposed a new test for determining whether joint employment exists under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).

Click here to read more, circulated yesterday (April 28) as a BakerHostetler Alert.