I did a post on this earlier.  It’s back in the news, as the lawsuit filed by the employee who was waterboarded during a team-building exercise is proceeding.  It appears the employer intends to mount a vigorous defense.

Workplace trainers everywhere are watching this case with intense interest.  If the employer wins, it could open the training door to other techniques once thought out of bounds during workplace learning sessions:  fist and boot in the parking lot; sensory or sleep deprivation, aka working 20 hours a day; hanging nude employees by their wrists from the top of the mailroom wall while mailroomers take photos; requiring employees to work at their desks outdoors in the dead of winter; and cutting off the electricity of an elevator jammed with employees on their way to lunch at noon while loud music is piped in for the remainder of the day.

Stay tuned.