​Bruno Katz (Partner-San Diego) and Robert Curtis (Associate-St. Louis, MO) coauthored the article “Eye on Compliance: A Brief History of Joint Employer Rules,” published in the June 28, 2024, edition of Law360 Employment Authority. The article explores the history of the NLRB’s joint employer rule, the latest modification in October 2023, ​which was struck down in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in March 2024. With the matter on appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and regarding whether one business can be deemed a joint employer of another business’s employees, Bruno and Robert examine the 2023 rule and how it “significantly broadens the scope of joint employment beyond the common-law definition.” They opine, “If the NLRB’s Fifth Circuit appeal of the decision of the eastern District of Texas is successful and the 2023 rule is made law, virtually every employer who contracts for labor likely could be deemed a joint employer because every contract for third-party labor has some terms that could potentially indirectly impact at least one of the specified “essential terms and conditions of employment.”