scope of employment

scope of employment
The activities in which an employee engages in the carrying out of the employer's business which are reasonably foreseeable by the employer. Under doctrine of respondeat superior (q.v.), a principal is liable for the torts of his agent committed within the scope, actual or apparent, of his employment. An employee acts in scope of his employment, for purpose of invoking a doctrine of respondeat superior, when he is doing something in furtherance of duties he owes to his employer and where employer is, or could be, exercising some control, directly or indirectly, over employee's activities. Lundberg v. State, 255 N.E.2d 177, 179, 25 N.Y.2d 467, 306 N.Y.S.2d 947.
Employee is in "scope of employment," such that corporate employer is liable to third party for his torts, whenever he is engaged in activities that fairly and reasonably may be said to be incident of the employment or logically and naturally connected with it. Daughdrill v. Diamond M. Drilling Co., C.A.La., 447 F.2d 781, 785.

Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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