From time to time I’m approached by a small company that has given an employee partial ownership in the company.  While I haven’t yet had one written on the back of a bar napkin, the agreements usually aren’t much more sophisticated than this (or formal either).  By the time I’m consulted, like many once-good marriages, the employment relationship

Its the time of the year again when companies begin planning whether and how to sponsor an end-of-year holiday parties.  Two years ago I wrote about how companies can plan their employer-sponsored celebrations to reduce potential liability resulting from those events.  The advice is as timely today as it was two years ago.  You can