Company's Faith-Based Sales Training Challenged By Former Employee

Yesterday's Pittsburgh (PA) Tribune-Review reports on a lawsuit filed against a Beaver County (PA) bathroom remodeling company by a woman who alleges she was forced out of her job with the company by the company's insistence that she attend faith-based training sessions to increase her trust in God.  Jo A. Yochum says that when she was hired by Bath Fitter of Pittsburgh, she agreed to have $90,000 withheld from the commissions on her first $3 million in sales to pay for a specialized sales training course. She says the course turned out to be little more than religious proselytizing and indoctrination. The company says that Yochum had an opportunity to review the training program before she accepted it, and that she previously endorsed the training program.