Can a business be held responsible if an employee or customer gets the coronavirus?
While working from home can seem like the dream setup for many in corporate America, it can also become a curse if you make some rookie mistakes.The question is at the center of a brewing debate across the country as states begin reopening their economies and seek to balance support for businesses with protections for workers and consumers.
"This is a whole new world of legal liability," Stephanie Martz, chief administrative officer and general counsel of the National Retail Federation, told ABC News."It's just potentially the Wild West." Store manager Natalie Hijazi temporarily closes off the entrance to a Pet Fair store inside The Woodlands Mall to help meet occupancy limits, May 5, 2020, in The Woodlands, Texas. The mall reopened Tuesday with increased health and safety measures after stay-at-home orders expired.
"That means if a head of a company said, 'You have to sit next to someone who has all the signs of COVID, without PPE,' you can't sue that boss. That encourages bad bosses to do just that," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said on MSNBC on Monday.
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