coemployment

Noun

co-employment (uncountable)

1. 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.
   • This study highlights not only the distortions introduced by legal concerns about the co-employment doctrine but also the complex relations that can emerge between regular employees and contractors, working side by side and yet separated by employment status, administrative/political, and cultural...2007, James P. Walsh, Arthur P. Brief, The Academy of Management Annals, →ISBN, page 595
2. 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.2014, George J. Siedel, John V. Siedel, Employers and the Law, →ISBN