In-house counsel need to consider the safety of their employees as protests break out over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, who was killed in Minneapolis last month by police officer Derek Chauvin while three other officers watched.

Todd Logsdon, a partner at Fisher & Phillips and co-chair of the firm’s workplace safety practice group in Louisville, Kentucky, said in an interview that companies with retail locations that have been looted could be liable under the general duty clause of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.

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