COBRA Subsidies Extended: Employers Revise Your Notices

By: Donna Ray Chmura.

President Obama signed an extension to the Temporary Extension Act of 2010 on Tuesday, extending the COBRA subsidy program enacted under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (i.e., the Stimulus) and extending unemployment benefits through April 5, 2010.

 

Thinking On the Dock of the Pay

By: Donna Ray Chmura.

I have already blogged once about Undercover Boss, but I thought it would be helpful to flesh out just why the pay-docking incident in the first episode stuck in my head. 

 

Durham County Small Business Legal Clinic March 5, 2010

By: Donna Ray Chmura.

Small business owners are invited to attend a free corporate legal clinic on Friday, March 5, 2010, sponsored by the Durham County Bar Association, North Carolina Lawyers for Entrepreneurs Assistance Project (NC LEAP) and the Small Business Center at Durham Technical Community College. 

 

Are You a Foreign Student about to Graduate or Finishing a Year in OPT?

By: Oliver Branch.

If the answer is “yes,” it is time to start thinking about obtaining an H-1B nonimmigrant visa (“H-1B visa”) so that you may stay and work in the United States.
What is an H-1B Visa?
Much like when in OPT (Optional Practical Training), an H-1B visa allows you to be employed by the company sponsoring the visa [...]

 

What Would You Like Your Undercover Boss to Discover?

By: Donna Ray Chmura.

Undercover Boss aired on CBS after the Super Bowl.  In the first episode, Waste Management, Inc. President Larry O’Donnell worked in several “boots on the ground” jobs in the company: sorting recyclables, cleaning portable bathrooms, riding a garbage collection truck, picking up loose papers on a hillside. He was bone-tired at the end of the [...]

 

Does Your Graphic Artist Own Your Logo?

By: Donna Ray Chmura.

The photographic arts community is buzzing about this photo of an unidentified man following the bronze mambo steps embedded in a Seattle sidewalk.  The sculptor has sued the photographer for copyright infringement.