Small-business owners are always busy and kept on their toes -- especially when it comes to the hiring of employees.

"Legally speaking, you can ask just about anything at a job interview, " says Lin Grensing-Pophal, author of Employee Management for Small Business (available in our Canadian and American stores), "but there are a handful of questions that can get you into hot water." The full article was recently published in AMEX Open for Small Business.

Read: Questions you can't ask when hiring