by Girish Anand | Dec 15, 2008 | Health Care Reform
One of the Google Alerts to which I subscribe is “health care reform,” which seems to offer the liveliest discussion of late of any topic I subscribe to. For obvious reasons, of course, what with our incoming president putting health care on the top burner...
by Girish Anand | Dec 11, 2008 | Random Musings
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...
by Girish Anand | Dec 11, 2008 | Random Musings
I call it “The Immaculate Recession” because our current turmoil seems to be solidifying what should’ve been obvious a long ago:Â We are no longer an Industrial Revolution economy; we’re the Information Age economy, and in that area, we still...
by Girish Anand | Dec 10, 2008 | Federal Labor Law
Mostly right, I guess, given the composition of the current administration. Much indeed has been made of Bush’s so-called “midnight regulations,” which no doubt face reversal under Obama and the Democratic Congress, but one set of regulations looks...
by Girish Anand | Dec 10, 2008 | Federal Labor Law, Minimum Wage Law
I won’t even begin to get into the changes to the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) coming into force on Jan. 16, 2009, but as many have mentioned, the FMLA Final Rule (registered on Nov. 17) is a boon to families of service members and to employers, the latter of...