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Sex and injury compo claims may spell doom for out of town work trips

By Brett Wilson - posted Friday, 5 August 2011


However the sex injury compo claim from the public servant brings into sharper focus the issue of where an employer's responsibility for staff ends.

In general if an employer sends a staff member out of town for work then the employer's responsibility does not just end at the end of the business day. The employer has a responsibility to ensure the employee is accommodated somewhere safe.

However I think it's unfair to say the employer should somehow be responsible for injuries a staff member sustains outside defined working hours or away from any work- organised event.

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At the risk of sounding unsympathetic to injured workers, there's no question some people are quick to pursue compensation actions against an employer rather than take responsibility for their actions.

Human nature, perhaps, but increasingly employers watching the bottom line fear out of control lawsuits and employees contemplating some compensation dollars should not be surprised when the boss calls in the lawyers to fight the claim.

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