Can an employer force employees to bring their cars to work, knowing they will be driving home from work, and nevertheless effectively encouraged them to drink and drive without limit?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Rice v. Chan Estate, 1998 CanLII 3978 (BC SC):
In Jacobsen v. Nike, supra the court found that the employer required employees to bring their cars to work, knew they would be driving home and nevertheless effectively encouraged them to drink without limit, and held at 388: Nikeˊs responsibility to the plaintiff went beyond watching for signs of impairment and taking steps to prevent him from driving if it observed any such signs. Its responsibility for his safety required that it not introduce into the workplace conditions that it was reasonably foreseeable put him at risk. It is hard to imagine a more obvious risk than introducing drinking and driving into the workplace.
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