Human Resources
Paul Shaheen, my associate from The Horton Group, an employer benefits brokerage and consultancy, sent me their latest LegalEase newsletter today. It’s worth posting because it’s an in-depth and fascinating article concerning projected employer health care costs for 2008. 2008 Per-Employee Health Care Costs To Exceed $9,300; Wide Disparities Foreseen By Stephen Miller, October 2007 [...]
Welcome to my new blog/website! It’s been more than 5 weeks since my last posting. The reason for such a long time lag is simple: This website was being created. All of my content (i.e., posts, links, comments, media, link exchanges, everything) has been transferred to this new site. My old site at BlogSpot will [...]
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 [...]
The City of Chicago's Department of Business Affairs & Licensing has asked me to do another employment law seminar (my 3rd). This free seminar will be on Wednesday, August 15, 2007, from 3pm-4:30pm at City Hall, 121 N. LaSalle St., Room 805. Like my prior seminars, this will be largely Q&A and round-table discussion. Additionally, [...]
Criminal Background Check left the following comment on my February 11, 2007, post "Employee Screening and Risk Assessment": The latest thing is what people have done/posted on online. Employers are now starting to scour perspective employees Social Networking sites such as Facebook, and MySpace to see what they are up to in their own time. [...]
