{"id":85,"date":"2009-10-21T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T07:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2009-10-21T07:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T07:41:00","slug":"corporate-liability-for-mobile-phone-distractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"Corporate liability for mobile phone distractions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.financialpost.com\/story-printer.html?id=2125965\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" alt=\"National Post\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gstconferences.com\/gst\/logos\/sponsors_137_national_post.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.financialpost.com\/story-printer.html?id=2125965\">article<\/a> in the National Post today by Howard Levitt on the legal implications of having employees who are distracted while driving.<\/p>\n<p>He writes that the various provincial bans on calling and texting while driving will likely increase the risk of liability for employers, by making it that much easier for a court to link careless driving to illegal use of a cellphone. <\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-size: 85%; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: justify;\"><p>Employers can be sued for accidents caused by employees driving while taking a call or texting a customer or the office. This is a risk whether or not bans are legislated. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His <a href=\"http:\/\/www.financialpost.com\/story-printer.html?id=2125965\">article<\/a> has suggestions on how to manage the risk through such measures as: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>introduction of formal policies<\/li>\n<li>training<\/li>\n<li>remove expectation of dealing with calls and emails while on the road. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article in the National Post today by Howard Levitt on the legal implications of having employees who are distracted while driving. He writes that the various provincial bans on calling and texting while driving will likely increase the risk of liability for employers, by making it that much easier for a court to link &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=85\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Corporate liability for mobile phone distractions<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Corporate liability for mobile phone distractions &#8226; Telecom Trends<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Interesting article in the National Post today by Howard Levitt on the legal implications of having employees who are distracted while driving.He writes &#8226; 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