Vail v. Coffman Engineers, Inc.

OPINION

Before MATTHEWS, C.J., and RABINOWITZ, BURKE, COMPTON and MOORE, JJ. *213MOORE, Justice.

This appeal addresses the extent of an employer’s obligation to provide a former employee return transportation pursuant to AS 23.10.380(a). The superior court ruled that the employer’s statutory duty was limited to return of the employee to the place of recruitment. We affirm.

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

In 1982, Coffman Engineers, Inc. (Coff-man), hired James Vail to work in Coff-man’s Anchorage office. Coffman paid the entire cost of moving Vail, his family, pets, household goods and vehicles…