Supreme Court to Rule on What Constitutes Abandonment of Employment for Traveling Employee

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in on the question of what constitutes an abandonment of employment for a traveling employee. A traveling employee is a worker without a fixed place of employment, and generally, a traveling employee is presumed to be within the course and scope of employment when he is driving to or from a work location. To rebut this presumption, an employer has to establish that the worker engaged in actions that were so removed from his usual employment that the actions constituted abandonment of employment. Last July, the Commonwealth Court ruled that ...