Opinion ID: 2516849
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Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Vicarious liability of SOS Staffing

Text: [¶ 22] Certified question two asks us to determine whether a temporary employment services provider is vicariously liable to a worker injured by a temporary employee provided by the temporary employment service to the worker's employer. We impute vicarious liability to employers for the acts of their employees where the employer controls the details of the employee's work activities. State ex rel. Workers' Safety & Compensation Div. v. Sparks, 973 P.2d 507, 511 (Wyo.1999). Vicarious liability does not attach where the employer retains no right of control. Id. [¶ 23] Here, the certified facts are that SOS Staffing provided no services with respect to Pillon except administrative payrolling services. SOS Staffing did not control the nature, scope, details, manner, or method of Pillon's day-to-day work or duties while he worked for Schlumberger as a temporary employee. Schlumberger controlled and had the right to control the nature, scope, details, manner, and method of Pillon's day-to-day work and duties while he worked for Schlumberger. On the date of the injury, Pillon was driving a Schlumberger vehicle to a well site as part of his duties as a senior operator for Schlumberger when he encountered ice on the road, steered the vehicle to the side, and hit a concrete culvert. The vehicle rolled on its side, and Fields was injured. Under these facts, we cannot impute any negligence on the part of Pillon to SOS Staffing.