What is the test for making a trip home from work to pick up his lunch at work?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from WCAT-2010-00315 (Re), 2010 CanLII 23539 (BC WCAT):
The plaintiff cites WCAT-2007-02428, Sandhu v. McAlpine et al., where the panel found that the plaintiff’s journey – he had gone to Staples from his office to pick up some office supplies and quickly went into his home to pick up his lunch before returning to the street that took him back to his office – was “predominantly for business purposes.” By accepting that the plaintiff’s “trip home to pick up his lunch involved a minor deviation from the most direct route back to the office”, the panel concluded that the plaintiff was in the course of his employment when the accident occurred.
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