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Summertime Fun – What’s Up With Holidays and Vacation Days?
June 4, 2012
With Independence Day right around the corner and summertime beckoning, it’s a good time of year to review your holiday and vacation-leave policies. In New York, for the most part, an employer has the freedom to offer her employees as little or as much of these kinds of benefits as she wants. Most employers provide at least some vacation and holiday pay. When you decide to do that, you need to ensure that your policies are clear and unambiguous, and you must put your policies in writing. In other words, you need a policy that makes sense, is understandable, and is written down.
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Coppola wins Pinnacle Charter School preliminary injunction
June 1, 2012
Lisa Coppola and Pinnacle Charter School won a preliminary injunction on May 31st preventing the school from having to close its doors at the end of June.
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Demystifying Contracts
May 9, 2012
When is a contract necessary for your business? Is a handshake enough? What about an email agreement? Do you have the essential elements in your contracts to make sure they are valid and enforceable? If you are not quite sure if you fully understand all the legalese or if your contracts are protecting your business, join us for our next seminar!
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The Rupp, Baase Ride for Roswell Team Keeps Growing!
May 2, 2012
Even though we have more than surpassed our goal of doubling the size of our team over last year with more than 170 registered riders, there’s still room for more! Join the Rupp, Baase Ride for Roswell Team as we strive to raise $60,000 for Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
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Business Owners Sometimes Can Personally Be Liable
May 2, 2012
“Piercing the corporate veil” may sound like something out of a mystery novel, but it’s actually a very serious action that can arise if there is wrongdoing by the shareholder(s) or member(s) of a corporation or limited liability company.
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Is Your Contract Protecting Your Business?
May 2, 2012
As a business owner, you know that it makes sense to “get it in writing” in order to protect your interests, but do you know the basic components of a contract that ensure that it is valid and enforceable? Although contracts are used by a wide range of businesses, and for varying purposes, the basic components of a contract are constant. Understanding these basic components can ensure that your business agreements are legally enforceable.
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Women Are Changing The Nature Of Power In Business
May 2, 2012
Decades after women began joining the business world in droves, there still are challenges for females in the workplace. Many female entrepreneurs have come face to face with them – pay inequities, glass ceilings, work-life balance issues (indeed, many have become entrepreneurs because of them!). While far from a perfect world, there are encouraging signs of a shift that appears to be positive for men and women in the workplace.
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Update: NLRB Posting Rule Struck Down
April 16, 2012
A South Carolina federal judge has invalidated the NLRB’s new rule requiring employers, as of April 30, 2012, to post a notice advising employees about their right to unionize.
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More Time For Comments On FMLA Revisions
April 16, 2012
The U.S. Department of Labor has just extended the deadline to submit comments on its proposed additions to the FMLA. The Wage and Hour Division agreed to extend the deadline an additional two weeks, up to and including April 30, 2012.
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Do Individual Supervisors Have Personal Exposure for FMLA Violations?
April 16, 2012
Don’t be surprised if individual supervisors start to appear more often as defendants in Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) lawsuits. Because of a recent decision from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Haybarger v. Lawrence County Adult Probation and Parole, the door has opened slightly for plaintiffs to name supervisors in addition to their employer.
