Workplace Injury, Employer Liability Issues, Joint Employers

Police Officer on Traffic Duty Assignment is Joint Employee of Their Police Department and the Contractor

Stark & Stark on 5/20/2025

When a police officer was seriously injured while working an extra traffic duty assignment, the question wasn’t whether he should get help – it was who should help pay for it....more

First Circuit Weighs in on ADA’s ‘Single Integrated Employer’ Test and Reckless Indifference Standard for Punitive Damages

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 3/12/2021

In Burnett v. Ocean Properties, Ltd., et al., the First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a jury verdict for the plaintiff in his failure to accommodate claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Maine Human...more

Commission Guides Employers In How To Avoid Multi-Employer Worksite And “Controlling Employer” Liability

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 3/29/2019

Seyfarth Synopsis: Since it codified the Multi-Employer Worksite Doctrine twenty years ago, OSHA has routinely cited multiple employers at the same worksite for the same violations. ...more

What's On The Feds' Regulatory Agenda

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 5/11/2018

It's all pretty good news for employers. On Wednesday, the federal government issued its 2018 unified regulatory agenda, and the following items will be especially noteworthy to most employers:-...more

Has the Fifth Circuit Opened the Door for Potential Liability of Staffing Companies?

BakerHostetler on 8/27/2015

In Burton v. Freescale Semiconductor Inc. and Manpower of Texas, LP, No. 14-50944, — F.3d —-, 2015 WL 4742174 (5th Cir. Aug. 10, 2015), the Fifth Circuit reversed the district court’s grant of summary judgment for two...more

OSHA Issues Policy Background on the Temporary Worker Initiative

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC on 8/6/2014

On July 15, 2014, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) issued a policy memorandum to its Regional Administrators, explaining in greater detail the agency’s Temporary Worker Initiative (“TWI”). The TWI,...more