Question

Can an employee be guilty of negligent hiring?

Answer 1

Yes, there are circumstances when an employee can be held guilty of negligent hiring.

For example -

Consider a company XYZ loans its sales staff ABC, a vehicle to enable them to make sales calls in the area.

Late at night, staff ABC drives out to a bar for purely personal fun and hits a pedestrian.

The employer will likely not be held responsible because, although the car is owned by the employer, the employee was using the car for personal, not business, reasons when the accident occurred.

answered by: anonymous