Health and Safety Law 2024 (October 2024)
In Vaickuviene v J Sainsbury plc [2013] IRLR 792, a Lithuanian national working stacking shelves at a supermarket was murdered at work by a colleague who was a member of the British National Party. He had previously made frequent racist comments and was aggressive. The claim failed on the basis that there was not a sufficiently close connection between the perpetrator’s actions and the work he was employed to carry out: “In the course of employment” does not have the same meaning as “at work”.
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