The National Franchise & Business Opportunites Show – Chicago When: 9/11/2010- 9/12/2010 Where: Schaumburg Convention Center – Illinois 1551 N Thoreau Dr. Schaumburg, IL 60173 The National Franchise & Business Opportunities Show focuses on self employment opportunities for individuals wanting to start up a full or part time business of their own, or wishing to add on to their existing business. Visitors will find a variety of successful franchises, dealerships and distributor ships, from retail to home based opportunities, with investments ranging from $500 to $500,000.

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Upcoming Biz-related Conventions and Tradeshows

The freelance job that you could be undertake could be much like the work you do at your current place of employment. This could have a conflicting interest, however again most freelance writing jobs are from another country or region. …

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News Ezines » Why Script Writing Jobs Are In Demand These Days

It’s Labor Day in the U.S. as I write this post. To my own amazement, I’ve spent most of the past month truly relaxing — reading lots of books, playing tennis, running, hanging out with my family and eating food I mostly shouldn’t — scones and donuts for breakfast, BLT s and burgers for lunch

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Six Ways to Supercharge Your Productivity

The sexual harassment law in New York City is better than the federal and New York State laws. The New York City law is excellent and a credit to the City law makers because it provides genuine protection against sexual harassment. The federal and New York State laws, however, are less effective in preventing sexual harassment because they give companies an easy out

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New York City Has Strong Sexual Harassment Law

When I told my mother that my husband-to-be was a consultant, she asked, “Does he work?” Mom was stuck in the mindset of Jobs 1.0. She had been in the work force when the knowledge economy was just emerging, entrepreneurs were considered a little strange, the only “real” professions were law and medicine, labor meant industrial and trade unions, seniority reigned, and careers involved step-by-predictable-step up the rungs of a tall ladder. In the Jobs 1.0 era, consulting was the fall-back face-saver for people who had lost their jobs

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Jobs 2.0: Nice Work If You Can Get It

The Wait A Second! blog recently wrote about a new sexual harassment case in the Second Circuit. The case, Kaytor v. Electric Boat Corp.,is unique because it involves not only sex, but threats of violence and what is more amazing is that the case was once dismissed.

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What Sexual Harassment Looks Like

A New York City judge has held that two beauty salon workers can sue their employer for retaliating against them after they complained about overtime pay . The Court held that prior rulings to the contrary were wrong.

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Retaliation Claims Based on Overtime Pay Complaints are Now Kosher in NY

Sex discrimination occurs when someone is treated differently on account of their gender. Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination. Recent reports on the declining number of women on Wall Street show that women are being treated differently, they are being replaced by men.

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Sex Discrimination on Wall Street

Five years from now, will we look back on the dismal unemployment that we’re suffering on Labor Day 2010 and see this year as the good old days? Within today’s official unemployment statistics hides the true cost of decades of economic mismanagement: Historically unprecedented levels of unemployment and underemployment. The Great Recession that officially ended in 2009 has left millions of Americans without jobs for longer than the worst economic period in modern history — the early 1980s

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Are These the Economy’s Good Old Days?

In executive compensation disputes, an executive can gain substantial leverage if the subject compensation, typically a bonus, can be classified as “wages” within the meaning of NY Labor Code section 190(1). If the bonus constitutes “wages,” then the bonus is protected against any meddling by the employer and must be paid in full pursuant to section 193 of the Labor Code. In New York, and most other states, wages are protected and must be paid promptly.

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When Bonus Payments are Protected by the NY Labor Code

I was interested to read that the German Government are considering the introduction of a new law which would  ban companies from using social networking sites such as Facebook to vet job applicants.

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Could we see an end to recruiters vetting candidates on Facebook?

Today, Governor David Patterson signed into law, the New York Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, which reflects the first sweeping domestic workers’ rights legislation in the nation.

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New York Governor David Patterson Signs Domestic Workers Bill of Rights.

The Los Angeles Times reported that an executive with Northwestern Mutual Investment Services twice put his semen in a woman’s water bottle at work. The first time it happened, the woman drank the semen laced water and felt ill

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Man Puts Semen in Female Co-workers Water Bottle – Is This Sexual Harassment?

There will be consequences if you don't understand the rules and the stakes of Facebook Places. Love it or hate it, you'll need to understand it, says guru B. L

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The Implications of Facebook Pages for you and your business: B.L. Ochman’s blog

In Pucino v. Verizon Communications, Inc. (“Verizon”), the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (which covers New York, Connecticut and Vermont) reversed a decision by a New York federal court granting summary judgment in favor of Verizon on a former employee’s gender-based hostile work environment claims.

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Second Circuit Clarifies Proof Necessary to Establish a Hostile Work Enviroment Claim

Following the announcement of the Tribunals Service that there has been a staggering increase in tribunal claims, 56% to be precise, the Employment Lawyers Association (ELA) has announced the results of its own survey which related to the experience of representatives (both claimant and respondent) in the employment tribunals. The survey which sought to canvass opinion on suggestions for reform of the system, revealed a substantial level of dissatisfaction with the current performance of employment tribunals

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Tribunals Service: Satisfactory?

A recent decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that awards of personal injury and injury to feelings relating to a tortious act (such as a failure to make reasonable adjustments in a disability discrimination claim) that pre-dates the termination of employment are not taxable and, consequently, should not be subject to ‘grossing up’. This case did not change the existing law, but the correct approach to tax and grossing up, both on termination payments and on tribunal awards, is an area that often causes confusion for employment lawyers

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Taxation of Termination Payments

Condos to Castles… “It’s Your Move!” It’s the bane of all real estate agents. Sure we have happy past clients and that thing we, in the industry, call a “sphere of influence.” It’s that old business from whence much of our future employment will come. But, every day, we wake up unemployed and must focus at

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Truth in Agent Advertising – A little continuing education for those who need it.

With innovation, entrepreneurship and significantly smarter fiscal policies, America should eventually escape its “hireless recovery.” But what won’t hasten new hiring — and might even dampen job prospects — is the mythical belief that higher education invariably leads to higher employment and better jobs.

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Higher Education Is Overrated; Skills Aren’t

The government has today launched a consultation process into its proposals to scrap the default retirement age in the UK. Currently, under Labours Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006, employers can force staff to retire at the age of 65 without paying any financial compensation

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Past your Hey day? – Default Retirement Age to be Scrapped