OSHRC Concludes Temp Worker Was An 'Employee' On Multi-Employer Site

The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) concluded that a temporary employment agency worker was, for OSHA enforcement purposes, an employee of the company that operated a multi-employer site, in a case that continues testing the legal issues surrounding how broadly OSHA can define the term “employee.” But the commission turned down the Labor secretary's argument that employees of an on-site contractor were also the cited company's employees. An industry attorney called the decision “mildly interesting” because of the finding that a temp agency worker was an employee of the