# Successor employer

A term used when buying commercial cleaning.

The buyer who keeps the crew and the site, and inherits what the seller still owed them.

California defines it and then attaches real liability. A successor uses substantially the same facilities or workforce to offer substantially the same services, and is liable for the wages, damages and penalties a final judgment says the predecessor owed its former workforce. Having substantially the same owners or managers controlling labor relations reaches the same result, as does employing as a managing agent anyone who directly controlled those workers' wages, hours or conditions. A separate law requires a successor contractor to keep the site's janitors of four months or more for a sixty-day transition unless there is substantiated cause not to, and a crew kept under that law does not count toward the workforce test. Every janitorial employer in that state also registers annually, and contracting with an unregistered one carries its own fine.

Part of: Buying a Commercial Cleaning Business (https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-commercial-cleaning-business)

Source: https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-commercial-cleaning-business/terms/successor-employer
Not dated: The same editorial definitions as the glossary, inside a trade.

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