This article seems good but I don’t think it will last.

Half of laid-off workers finding new work — and many are getting paid more.

I guess I am a pessimist, but when I look at the next three years I do not see any indicators that this economy is going to get better.  I place a lot of that pessimism on the current administration.  If this administration continues to create a hostile environment for the small businesses in America, then this is going to get worse.  I have two reasons for this pessimism.

First, we still have three and five year arm loans coming due and if we do not address those there is another wave of foreclosures coming.  There seems to be a lot of action by the administration and private companies to stem the fallout.

Second, the current Healthcare reform proposal leans heavily on the small business to pay for their employees’ healthcare.  Small business can only combat this with lower wages and putting the costs back on the employees.  This will lower the amount of free spending that has been going around and there will be more large businesses closing stores due to lack of spending.  Store closures will raise the unemployment and so forth and so on.

More taxes on the small businesses and people of this country will doom it to third world status.  I know that’s extreme but the only way I see us getting out of this with our pocket books and freedom is to lessen the burden on the public and businesses.

Help me out with this.  I want to see the sun through the trees.  Am I wrong?

Thanks to Mandy Blackford at the San Diego Employers Association for this post on a lawsuit brought on by employer denying a job based on a pregnancy by leaving a message on their answering machine.  Just plain nutz!

http://sandiego.jobing.com/blog_post.asp?post=21695

Thanks Mandy

I am speechless.  As an employer, this is ridiculous.  As an employee, I feel a cough coming on … for a week.

 Will Obama make paid sick days mandatory?.

I found the cited case (linked below) a lesson in generality. It looks like we need Policy Dictionaries instead of just Policy Handbooks. The judge used his definition of ‘gross misconduct’ because there was no definition given by the company. I wonder what the judge was looking at in this case. Being on drugs in a workplace is definitely reckless and you could make a case for several of the other defined terms he used. Here is what the judge said about gross misconduct.  “Gross misconduct” refers to actions that are “intentional, wanton, willful, deliberate, reckless or in deliberate indifference to an employer’s interest.”

Fired worker gets paid for unused vacation, despite company’s policy.

When will people accept responsibility for their actions?  How do we not know if he was on drugs during those earned hours?

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