Co-employment

Quick meaning: Co-employment is a noun meaning 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.

Meaning

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.

More Meanings

1. 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.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include co-opetition, coagency, coemployee, co-ownership, co-production, co-credit.

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