Who’s the Boss in a Multi-Employer Workplace?
As multi-employer workplaces grow in number, size, and complexity, the safety and other regulatory responsibilities of the primary (or “host”) contractor and multiple subcontractors can sometimes get fuzzy. Under state and federal statutes and regulations, which company constitutes an employee’s “employer”? A recent decision by the Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) Review Commission brought renewed […]