3rd Circuit Weighs OSHA ‘Single Employer’ Test In Workplace Violence Case

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit is weighing competing briefs from OSHA and two subsidiaries of the healthcare giant UHS in an appeal testing when the agency can treat legally distinct companies as a “single employer,” as each side claims the other is trying to overturn foundational precedent on that question. In recent weeks, OSHA and the two UHS firms filed separate briefs offering competing interpretations of the single-employer standard, setting the stage for the 3rd Circuit...