by Girish Anand | Feb 27, 2009 | Random Musings
Ryanair, a low-cost, no-frills airline that serves Europe out of its Great Britain hub, is pondering a pound-sterling coinbox on its toilet doors. “One thing we have looked at in the past and are looking at again is the possibility of maybe putting a coin slot...
by Girish Anand | Feb 26, 2009 | Federal Labor Law, Random Musings, State Labor Law
To be honest, I’d never heard of this phenomenon before, so I thought I’d better share it. It seems that young Thai university students pay $3,000 and up to come to the U.S. and work in a fast-food joint for the honor of listing “foreign work...
by Girish Anand | Feb 26, 2009 | EEOC, Federal Labor Law, OSHA, State Labor Law
Personnel Concepts, according to those I’ve spoken with there recently, is making a big push to create interactive tools for companies to create documents and posters to comply with OSHA and other regulations. First to come out was the Fire Prevention Program...
by Girish Anand | Feb 24, 2009 | State Labor Law
NEWS ITEM: At least 30 states have contracted with banks to provide direct-deposit unemployment benefits, some of which come in the form of a debit card. This saves the states the cost of printing checks and mailing them. REALITY: Some banks are abusing the system by...
by Girish Anand | Feb 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
A week ago, I warned you about the skyscraper index: As more cloud-hugging buildings are built, the economy goes the other direction, down, in other words. Now, here are a couple of more useful, or maybe useless, indices. The first one is the cardboard box index,...