Are you prepared to pay millions of dollars for negligent hiring? It may sound far-fetched but a negligent hiring lawsuit against a trucking firm in Illinois in 2019 resulted in a $54 million payout after a trucker with a highly dubious driving record crashed into a Jeep, seriously injuring the other driver, by driving the

Photo by Govinda Valbuena from Pexels Aesop’s Fable, ‘The Fox and the Grapes’. This is a story that any human resources manager will be eventually familiar with from personal experience. That bad experience after a promising employee fails to fit in, becomes disgruntled, and then things go pear shaped. Sour Grapes A hungry fox passed