Paige v. CITY OF RAHWAY, WATER DEPARTMENT

The majority holds that an employee who was injured after arriving home from his regular work schedule is entitled to worker’s compensation simply because he was on call. Rather than acknowledging that the going and coming rule no longer has any vitality in view of its decisions today, Wyatt v. Metropolitan Maintenance Co., 74 N. J. 167 (1977), Watson v. Nassau Inn, 74 N. J. 155 (1977), and Briggs v. American Biltrite, 74 N. J. 185 (1977), and its previous decision in Hornyak v. The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., 63 N. J. 99 (1973), the Court has extended compensability to the situation…