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Originally Posted by elkhunter11
Not true. If an employee commits a crime the employer is not necessarily responsible, especially if the employer wasn't aware of the actions of the employee. If an employee goes postal and gets a firearm and starts shooting people, is the employer guilty of murder?
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Look at it this way, say your employed by a contractor as the site manager to build pressure piping for a plant site. Your behind schedule and have to take shortcuts to make sure it is done on time, you decide to not complete a pressure test on a portion of the job which will save you a couple days. This is against code which is a Law. They fire the plant up and a fitting on the portion you decided not to test blows up and injures a worker of the owner. Who do you think gets charged?