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Second, an employer can be found liable for negligent hiring even without provision of any dangerous instrument to the employee. However, where an employer hires an unqualified person to engage in the use of a dangerous instrumentality, as in the above example with the bus driver, the employer may be liable for both negligent entrustment and ...
Pecuniary future damages and non-pecuniary damages are limited per employee by the size of the employer: [21] For employers with 15–100 employees, the limit is $50,000. For employers with 101–200 employees, the limit is $100,000. For employers with 201–500 employees, the limit is $200,000.
If only the employer is sued, then the employer can attempt to avoid liability by claiming the employee's conduct was outside of the scope of the employee's authority, but the employer generally cannot sue the employee to recover indemnification for the employee's torts. For an example of a court confirming an employer's right to sue an ...
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Often, employers will use BFOQ as a defense to a Disparate Treatment theory employment discrimination. BFOQ cannot be a cost justification in wage gaps between different groups of employees. [96] Cost can be considered when an employer must balance privacy and safety concerns with the number of positions that an employer are trying to fill. [96]
Stanley v. City of Sanford is a pending United States Supreme Court case in which the Court will determine whether or not a former employee who was qualified to perform her job and who earned post-employment benefits while employed lose her right to sue over discrimination with respect to those benefits solely because she no longer holds her job, under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
Federal investigators say a concrete business at 31-33 Middleboro Rd. in East Freetown has been cited with six OSHA violations following the death of an employee investigators say was preventable.
The Automated Classification of Medical Entities program automates the underlying cause-of-death coding rules. The input to ACME is the multiple cause-of-death codes assigned to each entity (e.g., disease condition, accident, or injury) listed on cause-of-death certifications, preserving the location and order as reported by the certifier.