Labor & Employment Law

Cell Phone Discussion and "Zero Tolerance"

By Michael Fitzgibbon

The excellent Workers Comp Insider writes about Cell Phones: Unsafe at Any Speed? It's a pretty direct post that asks and then answers this question "When, if ever, will managers of major and minor corporations bring the hammer down on blatantly risky behaviors behind the wheel?"  Have a read of the post which adopts a "zero tolerance" approach. 

The Ontario legislation may not be as restrictive, though, as I have written with my colleague Kate Zavitz in a soon to be released article, the decision about how far an employer goes in regulating cell phone use while driving is a business call where legislation (assuming such legislation exists in the jurisdiction where the employer carries on business)sets the floor not necessarily where the employer policy ends up, where the policy is more restrictive than the legislation. 

Full post as published by Thoughts from a Management Lawyer on June 02, 2009 (boomark / email).