Public sector union UNISON is calling on its safety reps to take 'active steps' to tackle violence at work after a court said employers can be held liable for worker-on-worker violence. The Court of Appeal ruled that, where an employee inflicts violence on another employee or third party, there can be vicarious liability of the employer for the employee's violent act where the incident is linked somehow to the employee's job.
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Court of Appeal case transcript:
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Worker-on-Worker Violence
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Worker-on-Worker Violence
"Today’s workplace has become heartless and soulless. Employees are seen as units of labour, automatons, functionaries, objects for achieving designated tasks, and as costs to be minimised."