Salt Lake City Corp. v. Labor Commission

NEHRING, Justice:

T1 The law uses the "going and coming" rule to determine when a person acquires and abandons her status as an employee at the beginning and end of the workday. If an untoward event, typically an accident of some kind, befalls an employee who is "just" coming or going from the workplace, it is of no legal consequence to the employer.

12 However, we must ask how much more than "just" coming and going is required before the reach of the law grasps an employer whose employee is in transit. As the legal history of the automobile accident involving Salt Lake City police officer…