The headline makes it sound hilarious, but it's an opt-in program:
"Employees will be paid extra, and offered overtime pay as necessary to make the deliveries, Walmart spokesman Ravi Jariwala said Thursday."
The interesting question that jumps to my mind is liability. For any of you who shared the pain of law school with me, it sounds like Walmart is trying to write us a new chapter in agency law on the topic of frolic and detour. Walmart's reputation in employment matters notwithstanding, I wonder how they handle it the first time a "delivery" driver takes out a mailbox or rear ends a car. I have an idea of how it should go, but that's not the interesting part of all of this.
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 9.9 ms ] thread"Employees will be paid extra, and offered overtime pay as necessary to make the deliveries, Walmart spokesman Ravi Jariwala said Thursday."
The interesting question that jumps to my mind is liability. For any of you who shared the pain of law school with me, it sounds like Walmart is trying to write us a new chapter in agency law on the topic of frolic and detour. Walmart's reputation in employment matters notwithstanding, I wonder how they handle it the first time a "delivery" driver takes out a mailbox or rear ends a car. I have an idea of how it should go, but that's not the interesting part of all of this.