Georgia Code
Article 2 - Employer’s Liability for Injuries Generally
§ 34-7-22. Contracts Exempting Employer From Liability Are Null and Void

All contracts between employer and employee made in consideration of employment, whereby the employer is exempted from liability to the employee arising from the negligence of the employer or his employees, as such liability is fixed by law, shall be null and void, as against public policy.
History. Ga. L. 1895, p. 97, § 1; Civil Code 1895, § 2613; Civil Code 1910, § 3132; Code 1933, § 66-302.
Cross references.
Contracts which contravene public policy generally, § 13-8-2 .

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Georgia Code

Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations

Chapter 7 - Employment Generally; Employer’s Liability

Article 2 - Employer’s Liability for Injuries Generally

§ 34-7-20. Care by Employer in Selection of Employees and in Furnishing of Safe Machinery; Employer’s Duty to Warn

§ 34-7-21. Liability of Employer for Coemployees’ Negligence

§ 34-7-22. Contracts Exempting Employer From Liability Are Null and Void

§ 34-7-23. Assumption of Risk by Employees; Requirements for Recovery of Damages