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Archived: State Issues Final Sick-Time Regulations

Attorney General Maura Healey on Friday issued final regulations for the state’s earned sick-time law, rules that clarify…

Archived: Small Business Gets a Breather on Health Insurance

Small businesses in Massachusetts won some breathing room yesterday from a provision of federal health care reform that…

Archived: AG Updates Safe-Harbor Rules for Sick-Time Law

Attorney General Maura Healey today issued updated rules for companies seeking to qualify for the “safe harbor” provision…

AIM Submits Comments on Sick-Time Regulations

Associated Industries of Massachusetts filed 19 pages of comments to the proposed Earned Sick Time regulations Saturday as…

Archived: AIM Honors Nine with Centennial Awards

A manufacturing company reborn in the middle of the Great Recession, a groundbreaking research partnership between Raytheon and…

Archived: Smart Phones, Remote Work Raise Pay Issues

Smart phones, tablets and wi-fi are blurring the lines between work and non-work time, especially for non-exempt employees. …

Archived: Loss of Economic Momentum Gives Employers Pause

Two reports issued today by Associated Industries of Massachusetts (AIM) suggest that employers have grown wary of an…

Archived: Legislature Should Rein in Solar Subsidies

In the not-to-distant future, up to 15 percent of your electric bill’s distribution charge could be used to…

Archived: Governor Baker – Why We Need Regulatory Reform

Editor’s Note – Governor Charles D. Baker delivered the following remarks about regulatory reform to the AIM Annual…

Archived: Attorney General Offers Transition to Companies with Paid Leave Policies

Employers who offer sick leave or paid time off to workers now have a six-month transition period to…

Archived: Governor Baker Addresses AIM Annual Meeting

Governor Charles D. Baker discussed economic growth, regulatory reform, overhauling the T and other issues during a keynote…

Archived: Correct Metrics Key to Sustainability Programs

(Editor’s Note: Wayne Bates, Ph.D., Vice President at Capaccio Environmental Engineering, moderates the AIM Sustainability Roundtable.)

Archived: Harpoon Co-Founder to Chair AIM Board

Daniel Kenary, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Harpoon Brewery in Boston, was elected Friday as chairman of…

Archived: Governor: Economic Growth Builds Great State

Archived: Confidence Pulls Back on Manufacturing Concerns

Employer confidence paused from an eight-month run-up during April as Massachusetts manufacturing companies grew skittish about weak growth…

Archived: Governor Seeks to Head Off Premium Shock from Federal Health Reform

Governor Charlie Baker is seeking to preserve several key elements of the Massachusetts health-insurance market rather than implement…

Archived: Legislators Resist Date Change for Sick-Leave Law as Employers Struggle with Regulations

A day after Beacon Hill lawmakers again declined to delay the start of the new earned sick-time law,…

Archived: Governors Address $7.5B Energy Question

$7.5 billion.

Archived: Sick-Time Rules a Mixed Bag for Employers

The following article was written by AIM staff members Lori Bourgoin, Russ Sullivan and Brad MacDougall.

Archived: Why Do Activists Fear Regulatory Reform?

The tantrum being staged by some environmental activists over Governor Charlie Baker’s regulatory reform initiative makes us wonder…

Archived: Senate Declines to Postpone Sick-Leave Law

The state Senate yesterday rejected an effort by Associated Industries of Massachusetts to postpone the July 1 implementation…