{"id":5387,"date":"2011-04-06T17:39:37","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T21:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/?p=5387"},"modified":"2011-06-23T17:52:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T21:52:14","slug":"tip-of-the-week-is-cat%e2%80%99s-paw-liability-scratching-at-your-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/2011\/04\/tip-of-the-week-is-cat%e2%80%99s-paw-liability-scratching-at-your-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip of the Week: Is Cat\u2019s Paw Liability Scratching at Your Door?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignright size-medium wp-image-5388\" style=\"width:300px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110406.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110406-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"Tip of the Week: Is Cat\u2019s Paw Liability Scratching at Your Door?\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>Tip of the Week: Is Cat\u2019s Paw Liability Scratching at Your Door?<\/div>\r\n<\/div>A few employers may be familiar with a recent US Supreme Court ruling on March 1, 2011, regarding the case of <em>Staub v. Proctor<\/em><em> Hospital<\/em>, No. 09-400, and how \u201ccat\u2019s paw\u201d liability played a part. Cat\u2019s paw liability involves an employer being held liable for unlawful discrimination, even though the \u201cmotivating factor\u201d in the employment decision-making process stems from an unlawful bias of a supervisor with no employment decision-making authority.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cat\u2019s Paw Derived from the La Fontaine Fable<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cat\u2019s paw relates to a fable about how a monkey convinces a cat to steal chestnuts from a fire, steals the same nuts from the cat, and then leaves the cat with empty but burnt paws. In the context of the workplace environment, the supervisor is the monkey as the employer is the cat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Apply Seven Preventive Measures to Minimize Cat\u2019s Paw Liability<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To find out seven preventive measures companies can take to minimize cat\u2019s paw liability, be sure to read the featured article by the HR pros at <a href=\"http:\/\/visionpayroll.myhrsupportcenter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MyHRSupportCenter<\/a>, <em>Is Cat\u2019s Paw Liability Scratching at Your Door?<\/em>. If you\u2019re not yet signed up or would like a free trial of <a href=\"http:\/\/visionpayroll.myhrsupportcenter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MyHRSupportCenter<\/a>, contact <a href=\"mailto:info@visionpayroll.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vision Payroll<\/a> today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tip of the Week: Is Cat\u2019s Paw Liability Scratching at Your Door? A few employers may be familiar with a recent US Supreme Court ruling on March 1, 2011, regarding the case of Staub v. Proctor Hospital, No. 09-400, and how \u201ccat\u2019s paw\u201d liability played a part. Cat\u2019s paw liability involves an employer being held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[1533,53,1532,1531,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5397,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387\/revisions\/5397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}