by Girish Anand | Feb 10, 2009 | Random Musings
You’ve no doubt heard of, or even participated in, the so-called online “dead pools,” where odds are placed on which celebrity will be the next to meet the Grim Reaper. That’s a bit too morbid for me, but when it comes to business, I...
by Girish Anand | Feb 9, 2009 | Random Musings
A theory from 1999 is resurfacing as the world plunges deeper into its current economic woes: The theory that the building of skyscrapers predates economic doom. This tidy bit of logic was conceived by Andrew Lawrence, at one time a researcher for Deutsche Bank. Here...
by Girish Anand | Feb 7, 2009 | State Labor Law
The New Jersey Supreme Court, which earlier this year ruled that striking nurses qualify for unemployment benefits, yesterday came out in favor of free speech rights–for rats! Actually, for one rat–an inflatable, 10-foot-high rat bandied about by the...
by Girish Anand | Feb 6, 2009 | Federal Labor Law
The AFL-CIO descended on Capitol Hill Wednesday in support of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), bearing a petition with a claimed 1.5-million signatures. The laborite love fest came a few days after Vice-President Joe Biden said “welcome back to the White...
by Girish Anand | Feb 6, 2009 | EEOC, Federal Labor Law
After voluntarily surrendering his nearly $10-million yearly salary because of poor company performance, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is now earning less than one-percent of that, or $10,000 annually. Unfortunately, under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), that...