Risky approach: Employment lawyers discuss potential increase in liability during festive season
In Charles Dickens’ classic story A Christmas Carol, miserly businessman Ebeneezer Scrooge threatens to fire his employees if they don’t work on Christmas Day, before reluctantly agreeing to a partial day off with the expectation that they report to work the following day that much earlier. His “bah humbug” attitude toward the holiday season leads to some frightening encounters with the spectre of his deceased business partner and three other ghosts who make him see the error of his ways.
