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Sibling commenters: for what it's worth, the notion of an employee having a fiduciary duty to their employer isn't as crazy as it sounds. eg, see here: https://
by sgentle 3y ago
Sibling commenters: for what it's worth, the notion of an employee having a fiduciary duty to their employer isn't as crazy as it sounds. eg, see here: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=724a91e1-94f1-4514-9e30-3749303c7c26 https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=724a91e1-94f1...
That said, I think it'd be a pretty tough argument to make that an employee following the instructions of their superior was breaching fiduciary duty. If they weren't acting to their employer's benefit, then whose? Employee fiduciary duty cases tend to be more about things like embezzling or competing with your own company while you're still working there.
An example of Fox getting shut down for trying to claim that sexual harassment was a breach of fiduciary duty: https://www.barnespc.com/news-articles/limitations-on-the-scope-of-an-employees-fiduciary-duty/ https://www.barnespc.com/news-articles/limitations-on-the-sc...
- hn_throwaway_99 3y agoThanks for the correction, TIL.
- epolanski 3y ago> That said, I think it'd be a pretty tough argument to make that an employee following the instructions of their superior was breaching fiduciary duty. There has to be proof about that. If everything was verbal how do you prove it? There's no way around the fact that sabotaging your company is illegal and a breach of contract.
- ikiris 3y agoThe leap you took from following your director's expectations to sunset a product to sabotaging your company is pretty epic.