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Personal or Company Responsibility?

Just reading the latest edition of IEC Insights and there was an article by Christopher E. Hoyme, a partner at Berens & Tate. The article described a case setting some precedence regarding an employers liability for an employee's mobile phone use.

Recently a Smith Barney broker was using his mobile phone on his personal time but making a call to a client. The broker got into an accident and Smith Barney was sued because it was "understood" that brokers made business calls on their personal time. The case was settled out of court for $500K.

This is amazing and just goes to show how there continues to be a degrading line between an employee's personal responsibility versus a company being responsible for almost everything an employee does on or off the clock.

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Omaha, NE 68114
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Posted by David on July 1, 2007 06:34 AM|Permalink

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