Employee denied workers’ comp for injury at “Fun Day”
A woman working as a cook for a nonprofit providing services for persons with “developmental issues” was not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits when she stepped in a hole in the parking lot while preparing food for the agency’s first “Family Fun Day.” An appellate court in New Jersey has affirmed a decision by a state compensation judge denying the claim. Kim Goulding worked as a cook for NJ Friendship House on an hourly basis. Her duties included cooking and prepping meals for the agency’s clients, who were called “members,” and teaching cooking class in the afternoons. She immediately volunteered to help with the Fund Day when it was announced for a Saturday in September 2017 on...
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