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| Chillax Standards: Sweatshops? Don't Sweat 'Em! NY Times Columnist Tells 'O' Magazine Readers |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 12:30 pm |
| Tags: Chillax Standards, Compensation Packages, Consumerist, Gawker, Nicholas Kristof, O Magazine, Top |
| We were totally down with the message of the O magazine August cover story "Chill: 21 Things You Should Stop Worrying About Right Now" (Sample entry: 'Worry Lines -- stop worrying about 'em!' LOLZ.)... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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| Aluminum smelters employees die of lung cancer |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 4:48 pm |
| Tags: Aluminum Smelter, Aluminumsmelter, Carcinogens, Compensation, Exposure, Factory, Workplace |
| when you consider that it's compensation for someone's life, don't you think?Read Permalink Email this Linking Blogs |
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| HASTA LA VISTA CHICO: Where Do Injured Workers Go for Treatment? |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 9:00 am |
| Tags: Workers Compensation |
| Division of Workers' Compensation and the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, if not the legislature, need to give some attention to this. Starting in 1979, Julius Young has represented thousands of individuals who have sustained life-changing injuries or illnesses while on the job. His goal is to secure the medical treatment his clients |
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| Will Insurance Commissioner Poizner Get at the Fraud Against Workers in California's Workers' Compensation System? |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 9:20 am |
| Tags: Workers Compensation |
| the news about how Workers Compensation fraud is taking billions and billions of dollars from our economy, especially those employers who purposely misrepresent the true occupations of their employees. You've probably heard the story about the roofing company with 45 clerical employees and 1 roofer. Workers Compensation premiums are based on |
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| Baseball Cards, Football Cards.....But Poizner Cards? |
| Published: August 26, 2007, 9:30 am |
| Tags: Workers Compensation |
| 1988, he practices workers' compensation and disability law in Oakland. This article originally appeared in his blog. Workerscompzone.com which focuses on California's workers' compensation law, its politics, and culture. It is republished with his permission. |
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| Don't Forget the Injured Worker on Labor Day in California |
| Published: September 3, 2007, 10:44 am |
| Tags: Workers Compensation |
| social plan known as Workers Compensation almost 100 years ago, and they have been scheming to figure a way to keep every bit of the premium dollar collected ever since. 30 cents of it just simply isn't good enough for them. They want the entire premium dollar, period! Since the California Workers Compensation industry was deregulated at the |
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| Nebraska Cornhusker Football Coach, Bill Callahan's $1.75 million/year Salary 4th Highest in Big 12 |
| Published: September 5, 2007, 12:33 am |
| Tags: Business Of Education, Amp M, Bill Callahan, Bonus, Coach, Compensation, Cornhusker, Football, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Salary, Texas |
| Nebraska Cornhusker Football Coach, Bill Callhan, was given a new five-year contract at $1.75/million year.The contract makes him the fourth highest paid coach in just the Big 12!The others are: Oklahoma's Bob Stoops ($3.45 million), |
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| What’s a Little Pollution Between Friends |
| Published: September 11, 2007, 6:52 am |
| Tags: Environment, Russia, East Asia, Amur, Beijing, China, Compensation, Hu Jintao, Riverine Pollution, Russia, Songhua, Sungari, Vladimir Putin |
| which would regulate how compensation for damages should be paid. Instead, both sides signed yet another protocol and agreed on planned joint work in 2007-2008. Russia expects the draft agreement to be prepared for signing by the end of 2007, Trutnev told journalists in Beijing on September 3. However, he conceded that the Chinese have yet |
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| The Worst Model for California Health Care Would Be Workers' Compensation "Reform" |
| Published: September 13, 2007, 1:56 pm |
| Tags: Workers Compensation |
| percent to 70 percent less compensation than before the reforms. And the Rand Institute's independent study of permanent disability compensation found them inadequate - before the Schwarzenegger reforms cut them by more than half. Workers' compensation is the only compensation that injured workers receive for a lifetime of living with |
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| Shooting for Color |
| Published: September 20, 2007, 3:41 pm |
| Tags: Antigua, Antigua Guatemala, Exposure Compensation, Shooting Color, Color Photography, Lower Exposure Compensation, Photoshop Levels |
| Geeze, take a look at that color. Here's how I got those vivid robin's egg blue. 1. When I was in Antigua, Guatemala, I looked for buildings that were painted bright colors, that were in direct... for more see... |
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| Microsoft's (MSFT) Ballmer receives $1.3 million pay package |
| Published: September 25, 2007, 7:46 am |
| Tags: Ballmer, Ceo, Compensation, Executive, Inthenews, Microsoft, Msft, Pay, Steve |
| Filed under: Management, Microsoft (MSFT)Microsoft Corp.'s (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO, Steve Ballmer, received what could be considered a mere pittance of a paycheck for the world's largest software company in its most recent fiscal year. In Microsoft's 2007 fiscal period, profit at the company rose about $14 billion on over $50 billion in sales. |
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| Governor Schwarzenegger, Please Sign SB 936 for Me and Other Californians Injured on the Job |
| Published: October 2, 2007, 6:43 pm |
| Tags: Workers Compensation |
| only is this insultingly low compensation for my permanent disabilities and lost income, but also the insurance carrier is demanding I pay THEM $1,700 they claim they have overpaid me. But I've had NO income since March 2006! I am calling on Governor Schwarzenegger to sign SB 936 in fairness to Californians injured on the job. Patricia Mendoza |
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| Chuck Krugel: New Seminar & New Blog/Website |
| Published: October 6, 2007, 2:55 pm |
| Tags: Seminar, Blog, Business Management, Unemployment Compensation, Human Resources |
| be doing an unemployment compensation seminar to be broadcasted live for the Human Resources Training Center. I'll be doing this seminar in partnership with David Prosnitz, the President and Founder of Personnel Planners Inc., an unemployment compensation cost reduction and control company based in Chicago. Below is the HRTC's course |
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| Millionaire Shoplifter Wanted |
| Published: October 12, 2007, 12:45 pm |
| Tags: Cayenne, Approximately, Armani, Blocks, Castle, Clothes, Community, Compensation, Confiscation, Connection, Crime, David, Described, Designer, Expensive, Forces, Height, Identity, Including, Interception, Kevin, Lancashire, Laundering, Lifestyle, London, Luis |
| He has described himself as an electrical engineer, alarm fitter and property developer, or a director of a business called 1st Global Enterprises'. read more |
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| Greener Travel for Blog Action Day with 'Nature & Kind', 'Green Seats' |
| Published: October 15, 2007, 11:36 am |
| Tags: Blog Action Day, Compensation, Emissions, Green Seats, Green Solutions, Nature Kind, October 15, Travel |
| Hundreds of sites, big and small are contributing their bit to this Blog Action Day 2007. read more |
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