borrowed employee

An employee whose services are, with the employee’s consent, lent to another employer who temporarily assumes control over the employee’s work.

• Under the doctrine of respondeat superior, the borrowing employer is vicariously liable for the employee’s acts. But the employer may also be entitled to assert immunity under workers’-compensation laws.

— Also termed borrowed servant; loaned employee; loaned servant; employee pro hac vice; special employee. See RESPONDEAT SUPERIOR. [Cases: Master and Servant 301(4); Workers’ Compensation 202. C.J.S. Employer–Employee Relationship §§ 197–200; Workmen’s Compensation § 122.]

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