A worker who holds more than one job with separate employers can be considered a traveling employee for workers’ compensation purposes if travel is an essential element of the workers’ assignment, a Commonwealth Court panel has ruled.
In an apparent case of first impression, the panel determined that a home health care worker who was injured in a crash while driving to a client’s home is eligible for workers’ compensation benefits as a traveling employee even though she also held jobs with other employers training home health aides and as a loan officer for a mortgage company.
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