Archive for the ‘Random Musings’ Category

Here’s something I just learned. I generally don’t pay much attention to unemployment insurance law since I don’t qualify for it, but some people have been pretty smart at gaming the system. To wit: Under federal unemployment rules that are being changed Jan. 6, 2009, a worker who drew wages from jobs in two or [...]

Over at the Ohio Employer’s Law Blog, Jon Hyman has an interesting discussion on the proposal to add ugly to the protected classes under labor law and employment laws. To wit, Hyman writes: “Under the current state of the law, it is illegal to discharge, to refuse to hire, or otherwise to discriminate with respect [...]

You might think it was the early phase of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain if you visited South China these days. Guangdong Province is the manufacturing heartland of China, and its factories supply a lot of what we Americans find at Wal-Mart and many other retail stores, especially toys. But things are getting tough [...]

I call it “The Immaculate Recession” because our current turmoil seems to be solidifying what should’ve been obvious a long ago:  We are no longer an Industrial Revolution economy; we’re the Information Age economy, and in that area, we still lead the world. That’s why, when one surveys the pain going around in 2008, it’s [...]