While meeting with a client regarding their company's human capital issues, we discussed their businesses' transition from classifying workers as 1099s to W2s. Due to confidentiality concerns, I won't disclose much about the business, & of course, they gave me permission to post about this conversation. A little more than a year ago, my client reclassified workers [...]
I thought it might be interesting to post a real settlement offer that I made to the opposing party to settle an actual court case. Since this deals with real parties & litigation issues, I won’t include any information that could disclose the parties’ identities. Nevertheless, despite confidentiality concerns, this post will give some insight [...]
After going to a couple of seminars that Chuck Krugel put on, and liking his presentation, I put his name on file for future reference. When the day came that I needed advice on how to handle a union situation involving my company, my customer and a labor union that my customer works with on [...]
On 3/27/12, I was interviewed by First Business' Angie Miles for their nationally syndicated morning broadcast. The subject of discussion is the recent issue of employers asking employees and job candidates for Facebook & other social media passwords & obtaining access to private information on social media. This has also been a recent topic of [...]
One of my clients, 79th Street Barbecue, at 7901 S. Wentworth in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood, has been garnering some great press & reviews lately. The restaurant just opened this past October 2011 & serves ribs, rib tips, fish, chicken (jerk chicken too), etc., etc. On 3/7/12, Ted Brunson of WGN TV recently named it "Chicago's [...]
