Last week, the state of Indiana passed its own right to work statute, thus becoming our nation's 23rd & one of the few Midwestern right to work states. For a summary of what this means, check out this 2/1/12 New York Times article. Illinois, where I'm located & which intensely competes with Indiana (as well [...]
The Recruiting Animal welcomed me on his BlogTalkRadio show for the 3rd time Wednesday, April 6, 2011, to discuss contract issues for recruiters and their principals. My segment lasts about 10 minutes. More specifically, we discussed legal issues concerning a company’s contract to utilize a recruiter’s skills for a position to be filled on a [...]
I recently completed my 3rd union negotiation & dispute resolution resolution of the past 6 months. One case involved a successful union decertification, & the other 2 involved settlements before the NLRB. For a variety of reasons, I won’t identify my clients or the unions we dealt with. The reasons for confidentiality include confidentiality agreements [...]
Charles Krugel provided us with legal counsel for union issues we had. He was professional and courteous. He was always prompt in getting back to us and easy to reach. His knowledge of the situation gave us confidence in his counsel. Our issues with the union were resolved in a timely manner, sooner than all [...]
Excerpts from the following article are also available on Slate.com's BizBox small business blog. It appears that our mid-term election results will probably have little impact for small-to-medium sized businesses in the immediate future (the remainder of 2010 into the first quarter of 2011). More specifically, there doesn't appear to be any clear message sent [...]
