Why the definition of “employer” really matters

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🗓️ 28 October 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The National Labor Relations Board is redefining what it means to be an employer by changing the so-called joint-employer rule. We’ll explain how the change could impact the rights of contract and franchise workers across many industries, from tech to fast food. And, polling numbers on congressional approval are sinking lower and lower. Plus, are SEO-bait names and bloated movie runtimes the new norms? We’ll get into it in a round of Half Full / Half Empty.

Here’s everything we talked about:

- “New labor rule could be a big deal for millions of franchise and contract workers. Here’s why.” from CBS News

- “NLRB joint-employer rule triggers fears of higher trucking costs” from FreightWaves

- “Congress’ Job Approval Drops to 13%, Lowest Since 2017” from Gallup

- “‘Overemployed’ people secretly work overlapping remote jobs” from Marketplace

- “Why it feels like movies are getting longer” from CNN

- “In tight labor market, businesses practice ‘strategic retention'” from Marketplace

- “Do CEOs make too much money?” from Marketplace

- “The restaurant nearest Google” from The Verge

- “Halloween 2023: Costumes fuel expected record holiday spending” from Axios

If you’ve got a question about today’s economy, send it our way. Leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART or email us at makemesmart@marketplace.org.

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0:00.0	Oh, it's not it's oh it is 330 Jake. Yo man. Whatever
0:04.8	Let's hope Jake is there showing up and now it's
0:10.2	Jake is there
0:11.4	Hey, everybody. I'm Kyle Rizzo. Welcome back to make me smart where we make today make sense. It is 27 October Friday
0:18.9	It's so weird to have one of these when there's a speaker of the house. Anyway, I'm Kimberly Adam
0:22.9	Thank you for joining us on this podcast and our YouTube live stream
0:28.1	Friday and that means it's time for economics on tap our weekly happy hour episode where we have all the jokes
0:36.3	That was a good one. That was a really really good one. I'm more prepared to you a little watching the Numer right there
0:41.9	So we will do what we usually do on a Friday. We'll get some news. We'll take a break
0:46.3	And then we'll do half full half them be empty rather. I think Drew's around this week
0:51.0	and we will also quickly peruse
0:54.0	The beverage charts in the discord and the YouTube chat and all that jazz. What what do you have going on these atoms? Oh
1:00.8	I outsourced my
1:03.6	My drink this week because I had this random collection of booze in my house and so I did what that bartender who I ran into a
1:12.0	While back did and I plugged all of my ingredients into chat GPT and I said give me a Halloween themed cocktail
1:19.1	Using any or a combination of these ingredients and I got a bloody bourbon sour
1:24.2	Which has bourbon, Campari, Quantro, lemon juice, simple syrup and then an orange twist or a cherry for garnish and I made it and it is
1:33.4	Bloody looking for sure
1:37.6	Well, I'm about to try it because this is a thing because you know chat GPT hallucinates and it makes stuff up so this may not be good
1:44.7	It sounds okay. It seems sort of seems like there's a lot going on in there
1:48.8	It's good. It's good. It's not like the best cocktail I've ever had, but it's drinkable. It's good. It's not bad
1:54.4	That's a plus. Okay. It's a plus. Good for you
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