Breitbart- German Court: Remote Worker Who Fell Between Bed and Desk Was Injured While ‘Commuting’
A man who slipped and broke his back while working from home was “commuting” to work during his walk from his bed to his desk, a German court has ruled. According to the court, “the first morning journey from bed to the home office [was] an insured work route.”
“Might have been the whiskey , could of been the gin, 4 or 5 six packs , I don’t know” .. Irish rovers
Bet he’s glad he didn’t get covid.
Stick a fork in us.
We’re done.
No need for a fork.
You just have to look.
I’m retired but still get a call up to come in and give a hand,no problem.
About 70% percent of our employees within the next 5 years will be in the same position.
It is a good company to work for but after 37 years it is VERY hard to find competent replacements for those who have left or about to.
Something to do about our current education system, me thinks.
Don’t worry.
Soon these companies will be phased out as “too white” or some such rot.
I hate Breitbart. POS pseudo/fake-conservative website held up by a bunch of yellow journalism feeding the left’s narrative to naïve RINOs everywhere. So I didn’t go and look..
Good. Some mentally-challenged people are incapable of; reading, comparing, analyzing, discerning, and understanding how to assemble multiple sources of information. Those people … like you … NEED the CBC, or NPR to TELL you all you need to know. No thinking required. Simpletons, like you are best served by government propaganda channels.
And BTW … be AFRAID!! Very AFRAID!!!! of the COVID!!! I just read that 1 in every 100 people over the age of 65 have DIED “of COVID”. Ohhhhhhhhh Mommmmaaaaaaaa!!!! Nevermind finding a more detailed age breakdown of COVID deaths … because the cherry-picked age breakdown should SCARE every 65yo. Be Afraid!!!
Run! Hide!
You should change your name to Dick or Whad
Preferably both
The REAL question is whether getting caught masturbating on your work Zoom is an insured “workplace accident”??
Meh…Germany has strange laws. 90% of the rest of the world doesn’t consider commuting to work as covered under Workers Compensation (or whatever Vocational coverage is offered the employee). That being said, if an employee is forced by the employer to work at home and is injured in any fashion during the established workday, chances are pretty high the injury will be covered (medical expenses and costs). Liability has little to do with first party coverages. I’m going to assume that they have a function in place that establishes when the work day begins. Perhaps a sort of check in. If employers are smart they would certainly do this, but even that would carry little weight on a non-clocked position.
Of course, all such first party employment coverages usually have a nice laundry list of exclusions related to such things as reckless behavior etc.
Simply put, this isn’t news. It isn’t a novelty. It’s just Germany mandating a coverage for commuting employees and having it solidified in a work at home setting. To be honest, I think the plaintiff on this was being overly honest. He could easily have said that he had already been doing some work prior to the incident and avoided the necessity of a lawsuit. As he did not, a precedent case had to be established reflective of the age we are currently in.
Does this not assume that had he not been going to his desk, he would have stayed in bed all day? If you are working ftom home, there is no commute!