Guest post by Jennifer K. Halford, Esq. Many small business owners hire family members or friends to work for their businesses. And often times that is a good decision. After all, it is convenient. You don’t have to advertise for the position. You usually know the individual’s work ethic. And they tend to be committed to their job because you are the boss. Yet, hiring family and friends is also one of the areas I hear business owners having the most difficulty with. Friendships are destroyed when your friend fails to perform to standards. Family members may try to…
Californians have the opportunity to make history in November – by voting to replace the dysfunctional death penalty with life without parole. We cannot sit back any longer and tolerate a broken …
By Rory Devine, Lauren Steussy and Tony Shin, NBCSanDiego.com A San Diego college student detained for several days in a county detention facility cell is seeking an attorney and may be considering filing a civil lawsuit, …
The California Public Defenders Association presents – Defending Gang Cases Seminar Saturday June 16, 2012 – at The Berkeley Marina DoubleTree Hotel – 200 Marina Blvd, Berkeley, California 94710 – For Lodging see information below. Program Coordinators: Kathleen Cannon, …
In one of our perennially popular Free Enterprise posts
Guest post by Jennifer K. Halford, Esq. It is very common for businesses to provide their customers with an invoice to request payment for goods or services that have been provided. In so doing, you are trusting that your customers will pay the amount requested. You are also trusting that they will pay on time. But customers don’t always pay their invoices as requested. And this can be detrimental to your business. You have already provided the goods or services. So you have nothing to insure payment. Plus, statistics show that the longer you wait to collect on the…
KALW Public Radio San Francisco 91.7 FM – By Rina Palta – April 30, 2012 At the moment, Austin Hills is wearing an orange t-shirt, orange pants, and wrist shackles. He’s sitting in an interview room …
ScienceDaily (Apr. 30, 2012) – In a rapid communication just published in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, biologist Douglas Swain of the Gulf Fisheries Centre and Robert Mohn, emeritus scientist, at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography present findings that suggest the delay in recovery of Atlantic cod on the eastern Scotian Shelf could be attributed to increased predation by grey seals or other governing factors and not the effect of forage fish as previously thought.
A warming climate makes for a brutal allergy season in the U.S., which may become even worse in future
A handful of plant collectors has shaped the field of botany. Now they are disappearing, and there are no clear successors
