2026-04-22T13:54:42.703Z / 路透社
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2026年4月22日 13:54 UTC 更新于2小时前
一名女性走进美国劳工部，该部于2026年1月8日在华盛顿特区发布了截至1月3日当周的首次申请失业救济金周报。路透社/伊夫林·霍克斯坦/档案照片 购买授权许可，打开新标签页
摘要
将更难证明企业为“联合雇主”
类似特朗普第一任期内出台的规定
围绕这一关键劳工问题的正反规则博弈系列最新进展
4月22日（路透社） – 美国总统唐纳德·特朗普政府周三采取行动，加大了认定企业对其承包商或特许经营商违反联邦工资法承担责任的难度。
美国劳工部公布了一项拟议规则，打开新标签页，该规则将缩小根据联邦最低工资和加班费相关法律，企业被认定为另一家公司员工“联合雇主”的情形范围。
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该规则与特朗普第一任期内劳工部通过的一项规定类似，当时该项规定得到了商业团体的支持，但遭到民主党籍前总统乔·拜登的废除。
简化合规：部长观点
代理劳工部长基思·松德林表示，该提案的目标是降低雇主的合规难度，最终惠及劳动者。
松德林在一份声明中称：“明确联合雇佣的标准将让企业更有信心开展合作投资，帮助员工了解自身权利，并提高劳工部调查的效率。”
该规则将指导劳工部的执法工作，也可在私人诉讼中被援引，但法院未必必须遵守。
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该提案将于周四正式发布，劳工部将公开征求60天的公众意见。最终规则有望于今年出台。
由特朗普任命的美国劳工部长洛里·查韦斯-德雷默本周因不当行为指控辞职，包括被指与安保团队成员有染，以及使用部门资源进行私人旅行。她在宣布辞职的声明中未对这些指控作出回应。
过去十年间，联合雇佣一直是劳动法中争议最大的话题之一，也是负责执行不同联邦法律的机构之间多次出台正反规则博弈的焦点。
与劳工部独立的国家劳资关系委员会负责维护员工组织和加入工会的权利，该委员会于2月废除了拜登时代的联合雇佣规则，恢复了特朗普第一任期内采用的测试标准。
与国家劳资关系委员会的标准一致，美国劳工部的提案称，企业只有在对招聘、监督、薪酬和员工档案拥有直接控制权的情况下，才会被认定为联合雇主。
劳工权益倡导团体对这一做法提出批评。左翼智库经济政策研究所2020年曾表示，特朗普第一任期内的这项规则将加大打击工资盗窃行为的难度，每年将导致劳动者损失超过10亿美元。
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US Labor Department unveils proposal on contract, franchise worker pay
2026-04-22T13:54:42.703Z / Reuters
By Daniel Wiessner
April 22, 2026 1:54 PM UTC Updated 2 hours ago
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Summary
Would be harder to show companies are ‘joint employers’
Similar to rule from Trump’s first term
Latest in series of dueling rules on key labor issue
April 22 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday moved to make it more difficult to hold companies liable when their contractors or franchisees violate federal wage laws.
The U.S. Department of Labor unveiled a proposed rule, opens new tab that would narrow the circumstances in which a business can be considered the “joint employer” of another company’s workers under the federal law requiring a minimum wage and overtime pay.
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The rule is similar to one adopted by the department during Trump’s first term that business groups backed but Democratic former President Joe Biden rescinded.
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Acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling said the goal of the proposal was to make it easier for employers to comply with the law, ultimately benefiting workers.
“A clear standard on joint employment would give businesses more confidence to invest in partnerships, help employees understand their rights, and make the department’s investigations more efficient,” Sonderling said in a statement.
The rule will guide the department’s enforcement efforts and could be cited in private lawsuits, though courts may not be bound to follow it.
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The proposal will be formally published on Thursday and the department will collect public comments for 60 days. A final rule could be adopted this year.
Trump-appointed U.S. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned this week amid allegations of misconduct, including claims she had an affair with a member of her security team and used department resources for personal trips. She did not address the allegations in a statement announcing her resignation.
Joint employment has been one of the most debated topics in labor law over the last decade and the subject of numerous dueling rulemakings by agencies that enforce different federal laws.
The National Labor Relations Board, which is separate from the Labor Department and enforces workers’ rights to organize and join unions, in February repealed a Biden-era rule on joint employment and reinstated a test adopted during Trump’s first term.
Like the labor board’s standard, the Labor Department proposal says companies are only joint employers if they exercise direct control over hiring, supervision, pay, and employee records.
Worker advocacy groups have been critical of that approach. The Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning group, said in 2020 that the rule from Trump’s first term would make it more difficult to crack down on wage theft and cost workers more than $1 billion annually.
Reporting by Daniel Wiessner in Albany, New York Editing by Rod Nickel
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