By: LINDSEY O’NEILL, ESQ.
These days, more and more people are opting to work from home… and for more varied reasons than ever before! Parents are choosing to work from home so they can stay home with the kids, laid-off workers are starting up home based businesses, entrepreneurs are working from home through an almost entirely [...]
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Work At Home… So You Can Stay Home With the Kids!
July 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments
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Federal Minimum Wage Increase to $7.25/hour
July 24th, 2009 · No Comments
By: LINDSEY O’NEILL, ESQ.
On July 24, 3009, the federal minimum wage increased to $7.25 per hour. This increase is the last of three provided by the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007. Many states also have minimum wage laws, however where the employee is covered by both state and federal law, the employee is entitled [...]
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It’s Fire Season…. Workplace Fire Safety (With Helpful Guidance from OSHA)
July 15th, 2009 · No Comments
By: LINDSEY O’NEILL, ESQ.
Wildfires again in the news… Reminds me of a recent fire scare at a local business here in San Diego. The company conducted evacuation procedures in accordance with its policies to protect employees from possible injury from a fire hazard. With the recent fires in the news, I can’t help but wonder [...]
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Should You Start Your Own Business? (Try Hunch.com)
June 15th, 2009 · No Comments
By: LINDSEY O’NEILL, ESQ.
A new fun web tool is available on Hunch.com, a new website designed to help you make common decisions. It is a web-based machine of sorts designed by some very smart people. The Hunch website explains it uses an algorithm built by computer scientists with backgrounds in machine learning to help you [...]
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Chrysler dealers scramble to unload vehicles
June 8th, 2009 · No Comments
BREE FOWLER
AP Auto Writer
Peter J. Walsh, the owner of Walsh Dodge in Jersey City, N.J., started out selling used cars in his hometown 28 years ago after the birth of his daughter. He slowly built his business, and felt as if he’d finally made it when he earned his Chrysler shingle in 2000.
But on Tuesday, [...]
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Selling Stuff on eBay? How Consumer Product Laws Affect You
May 21st, 2009 · No Comments
By: LINDSEY O’NEILL, ESQ.
I love eBay… just love it. The whole idea of it, the convenience, the opportunities, the company itself… not to mention the bargains! What you may not realize, however, is that consumer product safety laws and regulations apply to anyone who sells or distributes consumer products. The laws cover not only products [...]
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Paper or Plastic?
Colorado Lawmakers Keep Option Alive by Stopping Plastic Bag Ban
February 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment
By: LISA R. WILSON
Colorado shoppers will be able to keep using plastic grocery bags after lawmakers stopped what would have been the nation’s first statewide ban on plastic grocery bags. Lawmakers successfully lobbied that the ban would lead to increased use of paper bags, which take more energy and money to produce, and take up [...]
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Lead Regulations Will Cut Manufacturing Jobs: The Lesser of Two Evils?
February 5th, 2009 · No Comments
By: LISA R. WILSON
Garment workers, manufacturers and small-business owners gathered in front of Macy’s flagship store in New York Tuesday to protest a new anti-lead law they say will cut their jobs and devastate wide-spread retail profits.
The Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act of 2008 requires that all items sold for use by children [...]
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Toyota to Recall Over 1 Million Cars Internationally
January 28th, 2009 · No Comments
By: LISA R. WILSON
On Wednesday, Toyota Motor Corp announced it would recall more than 1.35 million Vitz, Belta and Ractis international models to fix a defect in the seatbelt, a component in the exhaust system, or both.
Subject to the recall in Japan are 525,898 Vitz, Belta and Ractis cars built from January 2005 to [...]
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FDA Announces Over 125 Peanut Products Recalled for Possible Salmonella Contamination
January 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
By: LISA R. WILSON
The FDA has announced that more than 125 different products have been recalled for possible salmonella contamination in what is now being called one of the largest food recalls in history.
Everything from crackers to ice cream to dog biscuits is being recalled and investigated. On Tuesday, PetSmart recalled seven varieties of [...]
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