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Joint Employer Liability in Event Staffing:
Legal Reference Guide
An 11-page PDF covering joint employer status under the NLRB and DOL FLSA frameworks — written for event organizers, procurement teams, venue operators, and in-house counsel who need to understand when a staffing arrangement creates co-employer exposure.
What's inside
- Definitions — joint employer, employer of record, reserved vs. exercised control
- NLRB regulatory timeline: 2015 Browning-Ferris → 2020 rule → 2023 rule → 2024 vacatur and current standard
- DOL FLSA economic reality test — how it differs from the NLRB standard
- Side-by-side behavioral trigger table: lower-risk vs. higher-risk organizer conduct
- Applied scenario: three-day festival analyzed under both NLRA and FLSA
- Four consequence types: collective bargaining, FLSA joint liability, workers' comp, OSHA
- Five common misconceptions — including the vacated 2023 rule
- Six operational risk reduction strategies
- FAQ + footnoted citations to DOL, NLRB, IRS, and OSHA
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Published by Megan Hayward, Founder & CEO — TAG
Who this guide is for
Built for the people who need to forward it
Event Organizers
Understand exactly which on-site behaviors create joint employer exposure before your next staffing engagement.
In-House Counsel
A citation-ready analysis of NLRB and FLSA standards formatted for legal review, contract evaluation, and vendor due diligence.
Procurement Teams
Use as an RFP attachment or vendor evaluation framework. Identifies the structural safeguards that reduce organizational exposure.
Venue Operations
Clarifies which supervisory behaviors cross the line from operational coordination into employment control — and how to avoid them.
Risk Management
Documents the regulatory landscape including the 2024 court vacatur of the NLRB's expanded rule — what's current and what's not.
Production Companies
Multi-day events with high staff counts carry elevated exposure. The three-day festival scenario maps directly to production staffing contexts.
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