Title 34, Labor and Employment

A gratuitous employee who accepts a written power of attorney shall act under the power as long as it remains in force or until the employee gives notice to the person's employer that the person will not do so.

One who, for a good consideration, agrees to serve another shall perform the service and shall use ordinary care and diligence as long as the person is thus employed.

One who is employed at the person's own request to do that which is more for the person's own advantage than for that of the person's employer shall use great care and diligence therein to protect the interests of the latter.

An employee shall comply substantially with all of the directions of the employee's employer concerning the service upon which the employee is engaged except: 1. When such compliance is impossible or unlawful; 2. When such compliance would impose new and unreasonable burdens upon…

An employee shall perform the employee's service in conformity to the usage of the place of performance unless otherwise directed by the employee's employer, or unless it is impracticable or manifestly injurious to the employee's employer to do so.

An employee is bound to use a reasonable degree of skill unless the person's employer has notice of the employee's want of skill before employing the employee. The employee is bound always to use all the skill the employee possesses so far as the same is required for the service …

Everything which an employee acquires by virtue of the employee's employment, whether acquired lawfully or unlawfully or during or after the expiration of the term of the employee's employment, except any compensation which is due the employee from the employee's employer, belong…

An employee, upon demand, shall render to the employee's employer just accounts of all the employee's transactions in the course of the employee's service as often as may be reasonable, and the employee shall give, without demand, prompt notice to the employee's employer of every…

An employee who receives anything on account of the person's employer in any capacity other than that of a mere servant is not bound to deliver it to the employer until demanded. An employee is not at liberty, without demand, to send it to the person's employer from a distance in…

An employee who has any business to transact on the employee's own account similar to that entrusted to the employee by the employee's employer shall give the latter the preference always. If an employee is entrusted with similar affairs by different employers, the employee shall…

An employee who is authorized expressly to employ a substitute is liable to the employee's principal only for want of ordinary care in the employee's selection. The substitute is directly responsible to the principal.

An employee who is guilty of a culpable degree of negligence is liable to the person's employer for the damage caused to the latter thereby. Unless the service is gratuitous, the employer is liable to the employee for the value of services properly rendered.

When a service is to be rendered by two or more persons jointly and one of them dies, the survivor shall act alone if the service to be rendered can be performed properly without the aid of the deceased person, but not otherwise.

1. An employer, or an employer's agent, who truthfully discloses date of employment, pay level, job description and duties, and wage history about a current or former employee to a prospective employer of the employee is immune from civil liability for the disclosure and the cons…