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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On Wednesday, November 15, 2006, from 3pm-4:30pm, I'll be conducting a free employment law seminar at Chicago's City Hall, 121 N. LaSalle St., Room 805. This will be largely Q&A and round-table discussion. Additionally, I'll be providing participants with a 14 page handout summarizing 55 federal, state and local labor and employment laws, and explaining [...]
On November 2, 2006, I was interviewed for my 3rd time by Dr. Tom Rogers and Jim Velos of The Rogers Group on their Voice America Business channel show "Business Dis-eases: Cure Them Or Die". The following is the program description from Voice America: Tom and Jim continually get legal questions on HR issues from [...]
