Summer jobs are a part of almost every young adult’s life. As we leave behind the carefree innocence of our youth, we begin to take on the responsibilities of being an employee. Despite this, we often don’t stop to consider what responsibilities we are actually taking on. Whether you’re a scooper at your local ice cream shop, a coach for a soccer team, or a staff member at a day camp, you are not just challenged with the performance of these tasks, but also with the duty to ensure these tasks are being performed to an adequate standard.
In this episode, Gilad interviews Heidi Brown, a personal injury lawyer and partner at Bogoroch & Associates LLP, to give an overview of the field of Tort Liability. By providing a series of hypothetical problems that a summer camp counsellor may face on the job, this episode seeks to help people understand concepts like “Duty of Care” and “Standard of Care”, while clarifying what you should be reasonably able to expect to be held liable for in the workplace and who ends up being held responsible.
Will you be held liable? Will your boss? Should you even be liable at all? Through this conversation, Gilad and Heidi seek to address the general inquiries the average new employee may face before entering the workforce via a summer job.
Gilad Maianski – Producer, Host, Editor
Heidi R. Brown – Special Guest
Pro Bono Radio is part of the Queen’s chapter of Pro Bono Students Canada. The Pro Bono Radio team are not lawyers, and this is not legal advice.
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