Make Sure Your Employees are Ready for the Holiday Season
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- Published on Friday, October 28, 2011
The holidays will be upon us shortly and people will be out celebrating through the New Year. This is a good time to review your alcohol service policies with your employees and to make sure all their seller/server training certificates are up to date.
Texas law encourages retailers to require their employees who sell or serve alcoholic beverages to attend a seller training course by providing a “safe harbor”. If an illegal sale is made, the seller/server might be arrested, but the retailer will have protection from administrative action by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) when the
employee sells or serves an alcoholic beverage to a minor or intoxicated customer, as long as:
- The person selling is not the owner or an officer of the company;
- The person selling holds a current seller-server training certificate from a TABC approved school;
- All employees engaged in the sale, service, or delivery of alcoholic beverages, as well as their immediate managers, are certified within 30 days of their hire date;
- The employer has written policies for responsible alcohol service and ensures that each employee has read and understands these policies;
- The employer does not directly or indirectly encourage the employee to violate the law; and
- There are not more than three of these type of violations within a twelve month period.
