OSHRC Clarifies ‘Bounds’ Of Single-Employer Doctrine In New Decision

A new decision from the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) appears aimed at clarifying the limits of its test for determining when separate entities may be considered a “single employer” in OSHA enforcement actions, holding that related companies with common management may be held liable for recurrent offenses. The two-member commission’s unanimous March 4 decision in Secretary of Labor v. UHS of Westwood Pembroke, INC. (UHS-WP), UHS of Delaware INC. (UHS-DE) upholds OSHA’s 2016 general duty clause...