Horse-Trading Employees: One Company’s Liability for the Operations of Another Company and Unexpecte
It is very common for corporate groups or joint ventures to “lend” employees from one company to another to meet certain temporary demands on resources. The borrowing company usually pays the employee wages (either in the joint venture name or the borrowing company’s name) and, ideally, a papering of the transaction has been done somewhere with human resources. But what if that employee is terminated from the project? Or… what if that employee negligently causes damage to t
Termination of a Supervisor for Out of Control Subordinates: Think you have cause? Think again.
A company’s team of people will often have supervising levels of personnel who are, as far as upper management is concerned, responsible for the successes, failures and actions of their subordinates; if a supervisor’s team member is out of line or has blemished the reputation of the company, internally or externally, it is not uncommon for the accountable supervisor to be made to answer for that team member’s actions, possibly including termination. With great power comes gr