PARTIES; DEFINITIONS; WHO IS AN EMPLOYER? – Successorship Doctrine

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Under the successorship doctrine, an employer generally succeeds to the collective-bargaining obligation of a predecessor if a majority of its employees, consisting of a “substantial and representative complement,” in an appropriate bargaining unit are former employees of the predecessor and if the similarities between the two operations manifest a “‘substantial continuity’ between the enterprises. (p. 15.)