Even if it does not directly pay the worker's wages, a company that hires a temporary laborer is immune from suit under the Workers' Compensation Act if it can show it controlled the manner and performance of his work, a federal judge ruled. Raymond Shaw was a temporary worker placed by American Staffing Resources Inc. at Thrift Drug's warehouses where he tripped on a bolt within his first two weeks on the job. The judge found Shaw met the definition of a "borrowed employee" under Pennsylvania law.
November 05, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Even if it does not directly pay the worker’s wages, a company that hires a temporary laborer is entitled to immunity from suit under the Workers’ Compensation Act if it can show that it controlled the manner and performance of his work, a federal judge has ruled.
In his 12-page opinion in Shaw v. Thrift Drug Inc., Senior U.S. District Judge Louis C. Bechtle found that Raymond Shaw met the definition of a “borrowed employee” under Pennsylvania law.
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