Employers must provide employees with a safe place to work, but this duty does not include ensuring that an offsite meeting place for co-workers and business associates—such as an employee’s home—is safe from criminal acts committed by third parties, a California appeals court ruled.
Thus, the employer could not be held responsible for the injuries when a young man experiencing a mental health condition fired a handgun at family members and guests inside his family home, injuring his mother’s co-worker and a business associate, who were both involved in work-related activities with the mother at the time.
