co-employment

Definitions

1. 1

   A relationship between two or more employers which involves having rights and obligations…

   A relationship between two or more employers which involves having rights and obligations concerning the same employee for the same work, such as the relationship between a contract agency and one of its clients.

   • However, in several of the conversations that I have had, the real issue was that the client did not understand their rights or how a contract security firm operated, and therefore they used the co-employment defense as an excuse.
   • Several related issues—co-employment agreements, legal protection of employees, labor unions, the formalizing of employer-employee relationships, and the need for a human resource manager—are the focus of this final section.
2. 2

   An arrangement where two businesses effectively work as a single enterprise, thereby…

   An arrangement where two businesses effectively work as a single enterprise, thereby causing the parent company to incur legal liability and responsibility toward employees of the subsidiary company.

   • Overseas employees appear to be more aware of possible co-employment claims against US parent companies.
   • In Luxembourg, the courts recently adopted the theory of co-employment, a judicial creation of the French courts.

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