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About five weeks ago, I wrote about the new Bureau of Labor Statistics report that showed union membership and representation was down in Connecticut in 2010 from 17.1 percent of the overall workforce to 16.7, or in raw numbers from 265,000 workers to 258,000. 
But I also noted that compared with 2007 (when
UPDATE: The Conference has been postponed until Fall 2011.
I’m looking forward to next week’s BizBuzz Social Media Conference at the Connecticut Convention Center. I’ll be speaking on the "CEOs Who Bl
og" panel discussing this blog along with some tips to companies who are considering jumping into the social media scene.
For
As a fellow Connecticut blogger Ryan McKeen has said before, the Connecticut Judicial Branch Law Libraries’ Newslog, is one of those hidden-in-plain-sight web gems that ought to be discovered more often. In a recent post, they referenced new reports from the Office of Legislative Research which provides answers to some questions that might otherwise
On Wednesday, May 27th, National Labor Relations Board Chairman Wilma Liebman and General Counsel Ronald Meisburg announced the appointment of Jonathan B. Kreisberg as the Regional Director of the NLRB’s Regional Office in Hartford, CT (Region 3
4).
Mr. Kreisberg succeeds former Director Peter B. Hoffman, who retired in March 2009.
Employers and attorneys in
Remember last year’s mess on the roads? If you recall, lots of Hartford-area employers sent their employees home early during a snow storm — creating gridlock and lots and lots of headaches. As a result, Gov. Rell set up a task force to coordinate with the largest area employees on their dismissal patterns.
Tomorrow will
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, like most federal agencies, is typically thought of as an enforcement agency, and nothing more. However, the EEOC also has a wide-ranging training program that it rolls out to various cities across the country "to help employers understand, prevent and correct discrimination in the workplace."
These seminars, which fall
If you look carefully, you might have noticed something new in the title of the blog. It now says the blog is written by Daniel Schwartz of "Pullman & Comley, LLC".
You might be asking: Who? And why are you telling me this? And most importantly, where are the recent developments in Connecticut