Wine Seminars for Employees

MEssig

Our wine buyer is considering conducting wine seminars for employees. We will follow convential wine tasting etiquette (i.e., employees will be "sampling" not swallowing wine samples) and we are concerned that this activity may be regulated in some way that we have not anticipated. Any ideas or concerns, I would love to hear from you. Please reply to [email]marieessig@northcoastco-op.com[/email].

Theresa Gegen TX

I'd be concerned about a few things:

1. Will the tasting class be required. If so, employees must be paid.

2. What if an employee cannot drink because of being a recovering alcoholic or other medical reason? Will that employee be excused?

3. Will the employer certify that all participating employees are of legal age?

4. What will the employer do to provide transporation, etc. Please note that many people can be impaired even from just a small amount of alcohol. If an employee driving home after the wine tasting was in an accident, the employer would surely get sued.

Good Luck!

wiremanufacturer

What I want to know is how can I get hired by your company? The only "wining" that goes on at my company is that nobody brought any food to eat today.

Brad Forrister

In addition to Theresa's suggestions, you may have state alcoholic beverage law restrictions on what you can and can't do. Most wine distributors know these rules and can guide you through them.

Brad Forrister
Director of Publishing
M. Lee Smith Publishers