Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 34. LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS · Chapter 7. EMPLOYMENT GENERALLY; EMPLOYERS LIABILITY · Article 2. EMPLOYER’S LIABILITY FOR INJURIES GENERALLY

34-7-22. Contracts exempting employer from liability are null and void.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

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.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

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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