by Girish Anand | Jan 27, 2009 | Federal Labor Law
According to employer attorney George Lenard on his blawg, the answer is yes, no, and “it depends,” though he does say it’s not a very realistic outcome. The company in question is the now-infamous Republic Windows and Doors, late of Chicago but now...
by Girish Anand | Jan 27, 2009 | Random Musings
An associate introduced me to a book entitled Good to Great by Jim Collins, who is widely regarded as a management guru. His book examines the traits and disciplines that separate the great enterprises from the merely good ones. (If you want a good explanation of what...
by Girish Anand | Jan 26, 2009 | Random Musings
China ushered in the Year of the Ox yesterday (today in the U.S.) amid deepening economic and social woes. It’s hard to get the truth out of the People’s Republic, which is anything but a republic, but the year just closed saw some 18,000 businesses close,...
by Girish Anand | Jan 24, 2009 | Health Care Reform
If you’re been following the ongoing cyber-debates about how to reform health care, you’ve no doubt run into a lot of wishful thinking, as in, “If the government pays for health care, then it’s free.” Wrong for all kinds of obvious...
by Girish Anand | Jan 23, 2009 | Health Care Reform, Random Musings
I’m usually not a fan of the stuff in the Huffington Post since it’s–let’s just say–a bit past center politically, but in my ongoing research on HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), I came across a first-person...
