It is like I told you before I am not a debater. Defend or excuse KBR aka Halliburton if you like I will not. Corporations are fully liable for what they do and for what their employees do while they are working for them. As citizens of this country we are and will be held accountable for the actions of these corporations that have been running wild throughout the world creating mayhem and destruction.They will lose and they should lose. The moment they locked her up after she was brutally gang raped as if she were a criminal they lost.
Okay, I read up on the case. IF the allegations she accuses her assailants of are true, then yes, the full brunt of whatever law applies should be brought to bear and the rapists and/or any accomplices should experience the full force of it. If the parent company or its susidiary was negligent, then they should be held accountable.
However, the fact that she pulled her case out of arbitration on the grounds that it had nothing to do with her employment in itself should absolve Halliburton of any legal responsibility. In work comp court in every state I know of, it would also absolve KBR of any responsibility. A corporation is not responsible for the actions of its employees outside the course and scope of their jobs unless it has rules and requirements that put an employee at risk. For instance, if an employer requires employees to be housed in a certain place or to take their meals in a certain place, then the employer is responsible for the employees' safety and welfare in that place even if they are off the clock at the time. It is reasonable for any company to not assume liability that they are not required to assume, especially when it opens the door wide open for every other grievance or personal issue with all employees to become the responsibility of the company.
So, as it appears this one did make into the courts, I'll wait for the court to decide and won't presume to judge.
All that is a totally separate issue from the point I was making, however, and you still don't seem to get the point I was making.
If your brother goes out and robs a bank or commits another crime, the place he works for is not evil or culpable because he did that. You and your family are not culpable because he did that. His friends and neighbors are not culpable because he did that. He is the one who did wrong and he is the one who must be held responsible for his actions.
If any of the rest of you knew he was going to do it and did nothing to prevent it, then you also share some guilt.
If Halliburton had no way of knowing that KBR's employees were capable of the terrible crime they are accused of committing, they are not in any way guilty or evil. And they are liable only if they put an employee at risk.
If and when anyone cares more about pleasure and money than they do the people that were created in God's image then they are evil. Mega corps fit that to a tee.
I had an employee who was assaulted at knife point. The perp held the knife to her throat as he made her perform the act. He fully intended on slitting her throat and he would have had he not discovered she was not the person he thought she was when he initially attacked her. His motive and intent of the attack would be revealed later after the act was committed. She was on the job site when this happened. Therefore as an employer I was fully liable for what happened to her. If I had had her locked her up after that happened to her or even one of my other employees had locked her up after that happened I would still be liable and in fact I should be liable for the actions of my employees that did such an evil act. If I or one of my employees hid the matter to try to cover my ass or theirs I would still be held liable and rightfully so but I did not nor did any of my employees.
How anyone could possibly try to defend Halliburton and excuse them in this matter is beyond me. An employer is responsible when they know the possibility even the slightest or even a remote possibility exist that may or could endanger their employees as is any member of any body of people.
Corporations for profit are not people nor are they comparable with family members or neighbors.
Well you are entitled to your opinion. I prefer to blame those who commit an illegal or evil act rather than those who had no part in it. I am responsible to provide as safe an environment for my employees as is reasonable and yes, I would feel morally (but not necessarily legally) responsible to help an employee assaulted in the workplace as much as I could. If you want to assume legal responsibility for illegal or immoral acts committed by your employees unrelated to the workplace, that is your prerogative. You have no moral basis on which to require others to assume the same responsibility, however.
Again, this employee is basing her case on her assertion that the assault had nothing to do with her employment. Therefore, if she was in fact assaulted, those who assaulted her are the guilty ones and the ones who must be held accountable, and it is perfectly reasonable for the employer to not assume liability. To make the employer responsible for something that is not within the course or scope of the employee's duties and/or outside the scope of the employer's control or jurisdiction is not reasonable any more than it is reasonable for you to be responsible for every stupid or evil choice anybody who works for you or anybody related to you or associated with you does on his/her own time.
Again it is your choice to accept such responsibility. It is not your choice to make everybody else follow suit.
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