Title 34 — Labor and Employment
18 chapters · 178 sections in this title.
N.D.C.C. § 34-02-01 Employer must indemnify employee for losses and expenses - Exception
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An employer shall indemnify the employer's employee, except as prescribed in section 34-02-02, for all that the employee necessarily expends or loses in direct consequence of the discharge of the employee's duties as such or of the employee's obedience to the directions of the em…
N.D.C.C. § 34-02-03 Liability for employer's negligence
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An employer, in all cases, shall indemnify the employer's employee for losses caused by the former's want of ordinary care.
N.D.C.C. § 34-02-04 Gratuitous employee - Performance and care required
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One who undertakes to do a service for another without consideration is not bound to perform the same unless it is entrusted to the person at the person's own request, in which case the person shall perform the service fully. If the person commences performance, the person shall …
N.D.C.C. § 34-02-05 Gratuitous employee under power of attorney
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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.
N.D.C.C. § 34-02-06 Employee for reward - Ordinary care and diligence required
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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.
N.D.C.C. § 34-02-07 Employee for own benefit - Great care and diligence required
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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.
N.D.C.C. § 34-02-08 Employee shall obey instructions of employer - Exceptions
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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…
N.D.C.C. § 34-02-09 Employee to perform service in conformity with usage of place - Exception
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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.
N.D.C.C. § 34-02-10 Skill required by employee
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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 …
N.D.C.C. § 34-02-11 Products of employment belong to employer - Exception
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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…
N.D.C.C. § 34-02-12 Employee shall account to employer - Demand required - Exception
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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…
N.D.C.C. § 34-02-13 Deliveries to employer - Demand required - Restriction
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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…
N.D.C.C. § 34-02-14 Employee to give preference to employer's business
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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…
N.D.C.C. § 34-02-15 Substitute employee selected by employee - Liability and responsibility
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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. 34-02-16. Liability of employee for culpable negligence - Liab…
N.D.C.C. § 34-02-17 Surviving employee to perform service - Exception
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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.
N.D.C.C. § 34-02-18 Immunity for providing employment reference
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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…