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How liable should companies be for violent acts committed during work by their employees?
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∙ 10y ago
Companies should be completely liable for violent acts committed during work by their own employees. Workplace violence is the third leading cause of occupational death and growing type of homicide in the United States. Companies have legal obligation and financial incentive to prevent it because the company can be held liable either directly or vicariously for the violent acts committed by its employees against other employees and even injuries suffered by their employees as a result of violent acts.
Companies are held liable when:
Negligent hiring of employees, negligent retention and/or inadequate safeguards to provide a "safe and healthful workplace".
Company behaves negligently towards workplace violence and thereby permits such violent acts to occur. This is also referred to as direct liability.
Company is not directly responsible for the violence and whose conduct was not negligent towards the act but as the employee who caused misconduct belonged to that company, the company is held responsible for it too.
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