Human Resources
Kate King, chief executive officer and president of the Napa Chamber of Commerce, on Wednesday, said It is difficult for business owners to know all the ins and outs of labor laws. After all, labor law digests fill two books 600 to 700 pages each, she said.[1]
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water!!
Wage War: DOL Launches Aggressive “We Can Help” Enforcement Outreach
April 7, 2010 at 2:15 pm by: HR Hero Alerts
Senate HELP Committee Hears Testimony on Paycheck Fairness Act
March 11, 2010 at 12:19 pm by: HR Hero Alerts
Immigration Crackdown: DHS Launches Thousands of H-1B Inspections, I-9 Audits
November 20, 2009 at 8:07 pm by: HR Hero Alerts
DHS Shifts Worksite Enforcement Strategy to Employers, Not Illegal Workers
May 4, 2009 at 8:36 pm by: HR Hero
EEOC Discrimination Charges Set Records in 2009
January 7, 2010 at 11:18 am by: HR Hero Alerts
Mass Audit Notices from ICE Evidence of New Immigration Tactic
July 6, 2009 at 5:03 pm by: HR Hero Alerts
In 1975 Jaws was the block buster of the summer, a great white shark turned man-eater terrorizing the island waters of Amity.
The irony is that same decade the few laws revolving around employment began gaining traction. First designed to govern the workplace of the largest corporations with time the laws would explode in number and impact the smallest businesses. Today almost 35 years later there are over 300 federal and state laws governing employment in these United States.
Like the great white shark censing a vulnerable and abundant prey law makers continue to create laws and agencies whose business it is to enforce the laws. I imagine those tasked with the business of enforcing the laws (quoting a line from the 2009 film Inglorious Bastards) “brother business is good” as can be seen from just a few of the headlines above.
If you’re a business owner you’re as vulnerable and as likely to be attacked as the swimmers in Amity by a predator whose sole existence is to attack you. No less terrifying than Jaws, the agencies charged with enforcing the employment laws are not only out in the deep waters of the large employer pool they also are in the shallower waters of the small employer pool.
How do you protect your business and your assets, one way is to get out of the water. For the past 18 years I’ve been showing business owners how to “get out of [the employment] water” and still have direction and control over the worksite.
Always at your service,
Rick Matthews
[1] Quote taken from Napa Valley Register article “Seven fined by state officials over tax, payroll issues” By KERANA TODOROV, Register Staff Writer | Posted: Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:00 am
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