21Sept05

Interesting comment from a student who is a labor lawyer:

"Workman comp laws in almost all states make it far less expensive f or employers to simply 'pay off' the family of a murdered empl oyee than risk liability and litigation costs to third-party plaintiffs. This is why Seven -Eleven won't allow employees to be armed on their premises. If an armed-robbery suspect is injured by a Seven-Eleven employee, liability exposure to the em ployer is vastly higher than if the employee is simply murdered by the VCA.

They'll never discuss it publicly, but the state, with the all-too-w illing cooperation of most employers, has inadvertently declared all employees ' expendable!'"

/John