An employee is also considered an invitee. The duty a landowner owes to a business visitor is to ensure the premises are free of defects and safe for the public as a whole. The landowner also has an absolute obligation to repair any dangerous conditions on the property and to warn any business visitors of hidden defects that have not been repaired. The Public Invitation Most courts today accept a broad definition of public invitation which includes, as an invitee, any person on land open to the public or to the class of the public of which the entrant is a member. For example, visitors in hospitals and users of public parks, though having no business purpose on the land are invitees and entitled to ordinary care.
Invitees are usually people the landowner wishes to be on the land.
Invitees are entitled to ordinary care from the landowner. Ordinary care may require only a warning in some cases, but, in other cases, ordinary care may require active efforts by the landowner to make the premises safe. For example, active effort may be required when the invitee may be distracted and thus unable to protect himself even when he knows of the danger. A licensee can best be described as one who's presence on the land is tolerated or permitted and thus not a trespasser, but who technically does not qualify as an invitee. For example, social guests are usually considered licensees even if the landowner expressly invites the social guest onto his property provided the guest does not stray from the area of the property the homeowner intended.