Comments on: January 4 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2007/01/january-4-roundup/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=january-4-roundup Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 27 May 2012 03:58:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Ted http://overlawyered.com/2007/01/january-4-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-5276 Ted Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:04:45 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4382#comment-5276 Note that the sexual harassment training requirement, by requiring that 2 hours every 2 years be spent on training, reduces productivity by 0.05%, and thus will effectively reduce wages that much -- and more for part-time workers. That's before the expense of hiring specialists to conduct the interactive training. Perhaps not a lot, but I suspect the average $40,000 a year worker would rather have $20 than an hour of training. Note that the sexual harassment training requirement, by requiring that 2 hours every 2 years be spent on training, reduces productivity by 0.05%, and thus will effectively reduce wages that much — and more for part-time workers. That’s before the expense of hiring specialists to conduct the interactive training.

Perhaps not a lot, but I suspect the average $40,000 a year worker would rather have $20 than an hour of training.

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