{"id":662,"date":"2013-11-25T14:03:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T14:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/?p=662"},"modified":"2021-12-21T20:04:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T20:04:40","slug":"eat-drink-and-be-wary-employer-holiday-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/eat-drink-and-be-wary-employer-holiday-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat, Drink and Be Wary &#8212; Employer Holiday Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/attorneys.html?Attorney=Graham\">Christopher Graham<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/attorneys.html?Attorney=Kelly\">Joseph Kelly<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/drunk-employee1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/drunk-employee1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"drunk-employee[1]\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-664\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/drunk-employee1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/drunk-employee1.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Will your company allow alcohol at this year&#8217;s holiday party? If so, unless you do some risk management, you may end up with a ligation lump of coal in your Christmas stocking &#8212; such as claims from drunk driving and sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some suggestions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep employees who overindulge from driving. Designate sober drivers or provide cab fare.<\/li>\n<li>Limit the number of drinks. No open bar, provide drink tickets, hire a professional bartender.<\/li>\n<li>Invite spouses and even kids. Employees are less likely to overindulge when it&#8217;s a family affair.<\/li>\n<li>Schedule the party on a weeknight. <\/li>\n<li>Make food or entertainment &#8212; not drinking &#8212; the focus.<\/li>\n<li>Make it voluntary.  <\/li>\n<li>No mistletoe!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more suggestions about how to avoid potential liability, check out of this useful <a href=\"http:\/\/corporatelaw.jdsupra.com\/post\/heres-how-to-stop-your-office-party-from-turning-into-a-legal-nightmare?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pulsenews\">post<\/a> from the Corporate Law Report.<\/p>\n<p>Tags: Employer, holiday party, liability, sexual harassment<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Christopher Graham and Joseph Kelly Will your company allow alcohol at this year&#8217;s holiday party? If so, unless you do some risk management, you may end up with a ligation lump of coal in your Christmas stocking &#8212; such as claims from drunk driving and sexual harassment. Here are some suggestions: Keep employees who [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3173,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/3173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}