On Tuesday, 7/17, I shot my 2nd TV interview for The Employment Hour. This 15 minute interview (hour long program) will air on Comcast local cable in mid-August and will be uploaded to YouTube around the same time. The subject of the interview is labor & employment law, particularly minimum wage and leave of absence issues). Also, Podcast and Internet versions will soon be uploaded. My 9/1/06 interview is now part of Professor Todd Cheesman’s Entrepreneur Law course at the Massachusetts School of Law in Andover, MA (see my 4/2/07 website post for more information).

Additionally, on June 9, 2007, I was interviewed live on Kennedy-King College’s radio station WKKC 89.9 FM talk program the Consumer’s Eye hosted by Derek McNeal and Charles Young. For 40 minutes, Derek and Charles interviewed me regarding labor and employment law and human resources issues affecting employers and employees. This interview will soon be posted on my website.

Thanks for the opportunity Derek and Charles.

Recently, I discovered that 2/3 of my September 1, 2006, TV interview on the Chicago local cable access show “The Employment Hour” hosted and produced by Mohammed Faheem and Paul Kutylo, has become part of the optional materials for a law school course.

The 1st two segments of the interview (20 minutes) are part of Professor Todd Cheesman’s Entrepreneur Law course at the Massachusetts School of Law in Andover, Massachusetts. More specifically they’re in the Optional Materials section of week 6 of the course which is Employment Law.

Here’s a course description of Todd’s Entrepreneur Law course:

This course will inform the student of relevant matters in the creation or acquisition of a business. Specific legal theory covering personal and business planning, selection of the right entity at the right time, contractual matters needing to be clarified early on, deciding when and how to rely on others to assist in the start-up or takeover, creating and understanding employment arrangements, and what to do when things go wrong will be covered.

Here’s a description from Todd about why employment law is part of this course:

Whom you hire and how you train and treat your employees can be some of the most valuable decisions you make for your business. Who qualifies as an employee and who is an independent contractor, how to avoid discrimination claims and what to do when you are forced to discipline or terminate an employee – these are the themes this week.

Here’s a description of my aspect of it:

Optional Materials:

The Importance of having an employment handbook for your organization.

What does “Employment-at-Will” really mean?

It’s great knowing that a colleague has found our interview suitable for academia and teaching soon-to-be attorneys about employment law.

Look out Chad Vader and Lonelygirl15, my very 1st TV interview has been uploaded to YouTube and Google Video. The interview, which runs 30 minutes long, is in 2 formats.

One format is the entire “The Employment Hour” Show, which was taped on 9/1/06. Obviously, this is a 1 hour program (unless you’re Rodney Dangerfield’s wife, in which case it will take you 90 minutes to watch). The other format has the interview broken up into 3 ten minute segments.

You can view the entire interview below.

I’m very excited to announce that on Friday, 9/1/06, I shot my very 1st TV interview. It will be on the air in early October.

The interview is for 30 minutes (3-ten minute segments), and is for Comcast’s local access program – The Employment Hour (channel 19 I believe for most Chicago land areas). The subject of the interview is labor & employment law. Podcast and Internet versions will soon be uploaded, and I hope to have the video on my blog and uploaded to either Google Video or You Tube.

According to the show’s website

The Employment Hour is a visionary effort to benefit both employers and employees by providing a platform for education, and for the exchange of information and ideas. This is the first Radio/TV Show in the country to focus on increasing knowledge and awareness while informing, motivating and educating.

Thanks much to show’s producer, Mohammed Faheem, for asking me to appear on the show. Furthermore, thanks to show hosts and producers Paul Kutylo and Jeff Williams, and the rest of the production crew, for making my appearance so enjoyable.