Co-authored by Karen S. Elliott Imagine you are the owner of a business with about 50 employees.  Your product is well-known and there are limited suppliers in the United States.  Your best salesman generates about 50% of your company’s gross sales – or about $100 million a year.  He is on salary plus commission under [...]

Small businesses in the United States have not added jobs for 27 consecutive months, according to a survey by the National Federation of Independent Business, a trade group in Washington, D.C.

This article by John Vandenhoff, a tax specialist at Sands Anderson, describes some of the incentives for businesses that hire new employees under the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act of 2010 (“HIRE”). We’ll have more on this important new law in some of our follow-on posts.

The perils of DIY drafting. Remember the classic Monty Python skit? Eric Praline (John Cleese) walks into the Post Office to get a fish license for his pet halibut (also named Eric) and gets into an argument with the man behind the counter (Eric Idle). Here is an excerpt*: Praline (pulling out his “cat license” [...]

I’ve written before about being careful about what your social media profile might say to potential employers. The City of Bozeman, Montana took its vetting process a step further by asking applicants for municipal jobs to provide all login and password information for social networking and blog sites.