60-2-1. Indemnification of employee by employer--Exceptions.
An employer shall indemnify an employee, except as provided in §60-2-2 for all that the employee necessarily expends or loses in direct consequence of the discharge of the employee's duties, or of the employee's obedience to the direction of the employer, even though unlawful, unless the employee at the time of obeying such directions believed such directions to be unlawful.
Source: CivC 1877, §1129; CL 1887, §3752; RCivC 1903, §1448; RC 1919, §1072; SDC 1939, §17.0201; SL 2008, ch 276, §6.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 60 - Labor and Employment
Chapter 02 - Obligations Of Employer And Employee
Section 60-2-1 - Indemnification of employee by employer--Exceptions.
Section 60-2-2 - Losses for which employer not required to indemnify employee.
Section 60-2-3 - Employer to indemnify for his own negligence.
Section 60-2-4 - Service with ordinary care and diligence.
Section 60-2-5 - Duties of employee for his own benefit.
Section 60-2-6 - Contract for service limited to two years.
Section 60-2-7 - Obedience to employer required--Exceptions.
Section 60-2-8 - Duty of employee to conform to usage--Exception.
Section 60-2-9 - Degree of skill required of employee.
Section 60-2-10 - Products of employment belong to employer--Exception.
Section 60-2-11 - Duty of employee to account.
Section 60-2-12 - Employee not bound to deliver without demand.
Section 60-2-13 - Preference to employer's business.
Section 60-2-14 - Preference between employers according to urgency.
Section 60-2-15 - Responsibility of employee for substitute.
Section 60-2-16 - Responsibility to employer for misconduct.
Section 60-2-17 - Duty of surviving employee.
Section 60-2-18 - Day's labor defined.
Section 60-2-19 - Duty of employee to deliver things received.