Employers Not Liable for Household Members Infected with COVID
On July 6, 2023, the California Supreme Court issued a significant ruling related to “take-home-COVID-19.”
In short, the court said employers don’t owe a duty of care to prevent the spread of COVID-19 to their employees’ household members.
“We are grateful the Court recognized that holding employers liable for nonemployees who contracted COVID-19 would be a significant expansion of tort law that would have forced employers to bear the responsibility of subsidizing the health care costs of the pandemic,” said CalChamber Corporate Counsel Nicole Wasylkiw. “The Court clearly understood that, given the public policy considerations in play during the pandemic, employers should not have to absorb the considerable costs and liability that were at issue in the case.
https://calchamberalert.com/2023/07/14/california-supreme-court-rules-on-take-home-covid-19/
