August 3, 2015 - HospitalityLawyer.com®

Legally Speaking: Avoiding Bath Fall Liability

by Karen Morris in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Legal, Lodging, Safety & Security. Posted August 3, 2015

Some issues in hotel law come and go. Falls in slippery bathtubs have a sticking quality. Liability in this type of lawsuit can be avoided but it takes some attention to those porcelain bastions of cleanliness. In the typical case a guest is showering, loses his balance and falls. Because floors and walls surrounding showers are ...

Hotel Booking Fraud Increasing. What You Can Do

by Mark Dauner in Lodging. Posted August 3, 2015

Vacation travelers are always on the hunt for the best deal – particularly when it comes to hotels. For business travelers, the concept of open booking has been very popular in the last few years as travelers look to make choices outside of their company’s traditional managed travel program. With the prevalence of mobile online ...

Ensuring Worker Safety Abroad

by Petra Risk Solutions in Travel. Posted August 3, 2015

Ensuring Worker Safety Abroad: Although kidnapping of Americans abroad gets all the publicity, other risks await business travelers. Here’s what a business manager needs to know before sending an employee overseas. Before Traveling Research. Before a trip abroad, travelers should gain a general understanding of the country’s cultural, economic and political situation. The U.S. State Department issues Consular Information Sheets for every country of the world with ...

Clamping Down on “Apartment-Sharing” Website AirBNB

by Malcolm Seymour in Lodging, Travel. Posted August 3, 2015

New York State Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, has made waves in recent months by subpoenaing the popular “apartment-sharing” website AirBNB for information on more than 15,000 of the website’s hosts in New York City. The subpoenas were issued as part of Schneiderman’s campaign to enforce a 2010 New York law that took effect last year, clamping down ...

Global Equal Employment Opportunity Toolkit

by Don Dowling in Human Resources. Posted August 3, 2015

A one-size-fits-all American-style approach to EEO compliance does not work globally because American laws on discrimination, harassment and diversity are unique in the world. Internationally, though, discrimination and harassment laws vary widely and in many countries diversity is not an issue. These differences complicate the EEO initiatives that American multinationals would otherwise launch globally. This toolkit will address the broad scope of global discrimination programs. ...

Dear Guest, How Did You Sleep?

by Osvaldo Torres Cruz in Lodging. Posted August 3, 2015

Since prehistoric times human beings have moved towards other geographical areas for commercial purposes and exchange, for which they needed shelters to stay with the primary objective of resting. This need gave rise to establishments which were the precursors of hotels. Rest is a vital human need that replenishes and recharges the human battery. The ...

Cross-Border Telecommuting Checklist

by Don Dowling in Human Resources, Technology, Travel. Posted August 3, 2015

Belgium’s Roger Blanpain, perhaps the world’s preeminent professor of international employment law, once said that “we live in an information society, driven by knowledge in action.…[Services] can be provided via the information highways from anywhere, even from the other side of the globe…We are in a New World. It immediately becomes clear why developments in the globalized, non-material market ...

Unusual and Inexpensive Energy-Saving Tactics for Hotels

by Phil Sprague in Lodging. Posted August 3, 2015

Over the years, facility hotel and building managers have introduced many different and unusual methods for saving energy. Some were extremely expensive, while others were more or less just common sense. Some ideas that have been suggested in the marketplace could literally be characterized as outright fraud, where salespeople espouse that their magic black box ...

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