Legal Opinion
Bogustawa Frey v. Hotel Coleman
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 11, 2018No. 17-2267PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Rovner, Circuit Judge.
Before we can attend to any other issues in an employment discrimination case, we must first determine who, in fact, employed the plaintiff. This question, which seems as though it ought to be simple on its face, continues to confound litigants and courts. This case presents issues regarding the employer/employee relationship that arise in the not-so-uncommon scenario where one employer hires another entity to manage the day-to-day operations of an enterprise. In such a case, one entity provides the paycheck but another entity does all of the other tasks one ordinarily…
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