The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Georgia
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Title 34, Chapter 7 (Employer's Liability), Article 1
- Effective
- standing
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Workplace rulesStanding duty
- Addressees
- Character
- workplace duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Georgia DUT-GA
Operative words
The employer is bound to exercise ordinary care... If there are latent defects in machinery or dangers incident to an employment, which defects or dangers the employer knows or ought to know but which are unknown to the employee, then the employer shall give the employee warning with respect thereto.
Penalty
Civil liability in tort for breach of the statutory duty (subject, from August 5, 2020, to the gross-negligence condition of the Business Safety Act, Ex. DUT-GA-012, and to the exclusivity of workers' compensation where it applies)
What it required
Every employer is bound to ordinary care toward its employees and must warn them of 'dangers incident to an employment' that the employer 'knows or ought to know'; an airborne pathogen present in the workplace and in the community was such a danger from March 2020.
Retrieval noteSame volume PDF as Ex. DUT-GA-009; section text at PDF pp. 101-102.