Dec 282006

Benefit Plan Assessment Tool

Paul Shaheen, Vice President of The Horton Group (an insurance broker that provides risk management and employee benefits to businesses of all sizes), provided me with a copy of their employer benefits survey. It provides an interesting overview concerning what businesses should consider when choosing benefits plans.
The following is a selection of topics from the [...]

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Dec 132006

Want to Avoid or Quickly Resolve Labor & Employment Problems? Listen To Your Employees

As a fan of professional basketball, football and baseball, especially Chicago’s teams, I often find valuable business lessons in analogizing labor and employment law related issues to those in sports (chess too for that matter). These analogies include the triangle offense/defense (basketball), the 46 defense (football) or what to say or not to say to [...]

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Dec 032006

12/11/06 Labor & Employment Law Seminar @ Kent College of Law, Chicago

On Monday, December 11, 2006, I’ll be conducting a labor and employment law seminar at the Illinois Institute of Technology’s (IIT) Stuart Graduate School of Business, at the Kent College of Law, for a group of 21 government officials and business people from the northern Chinese province of Inner Mongolia. They’re studying at the Stuart [...]

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