What is corporate manslaughter?

• Corporate manslaughter is general term that refers to a type of workplace safety prosecution.
• Corporate manslaughter occurs where an employer is prosecuted for involuntary manslaughter on the basis of recklessness or negligence.
• The employer could be a business, a company, an organisation or a natural person.
• This crime commonly occurs where the employer’s workplace safety procedures are so lacking that it results in the death of an employee.
• In the case of a company the directors of the company may be sentenced to jail and the company may be sentenced to large monetary fines.
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