Torres-Negron v. Merck & Company

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• holding that first factor weighed in favor of finding of a single enterprise where parent company established personnel policies applicable to all of its subsidiaries and retained the power to terminate an employee at a subsidiary
• holding that first factor weighed in favor of finding of a single enterprise where parent company established personnel policies applicable to all of its subsidiaries and retained the power to terminate an employee at a subsidiary
• assessing employer liability in alleged violation of Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
• “Courts should be mindful that control remains the principal guidepost, for determining whether multiple entities can be a plaintiffs joint employers.”
• “a finding that two companies are an employee's ‘joint employers’ only affects each employer's liability to the employee for their own actions, not for each other's actions”
• “Thus, a finding 9 Joint employer liability is recognized under Title VII, the VHRA, and the VWPL. See Butler v. Drive Auto. Indus. Of Am., Inc., 793 F.3d 404, 410 (4th Cir. 2015

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).