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Business Ethics Question

Business Ethics Question
Question:

Is it ethical for an employer to lease an employee to an agency without the employee's knowledge or consent?  These agents take on the employee's risk liability for a fee, and the employer is held harmless should any worker compensation issues arise.

Specific example:

Employer suspects a dangerous working condition, say, an electrical problem in the employee's environment. Unable to afford the repair, he leases the employee's liability insurance to a third party, and remains silent. Employee is oblivious to the employer's worry over their safety, and possible liability .

Shouldn't an employee be given the opportunity to make his/her own choice?

Thoughts?  

Added by Teresa Summerlee Isanhart
on 1/17, 6:34pm

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