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Archived: AIM Honors Six with Next Century Awards

The world’s foremost oceanographic research institution, a Worcester business owner who left behind a unique educational legacy and…

Archived: Business Confidence Rebounds in July

The Associated Industries of Massachusetts Business Confidence Index added 2.9 points in July to 59.2, ending a string…

Archived: Senate Solar Subsidy Could Add $600 Million to Electric Bills

The state Senate last week passed on a voice vote with little debate a solar-energy subsidy that could…

Archived: Role of Business in Society Unchanged from 1916

Editor’s Note ” Associated Industries of Massachusetts is committed to the idea that only a sound private-sector economy…

Archived: Pay Equality – Right Goal, Wrong Approach

Megan B. Sullivan, Esq. is Managing Partner of Sullivan, Hayes & Quinn LLC in Springfield and a member…

Archived: Compromise Reached on Controversial Tax Change

Governor Charlie Baker, legislative leaders and the business community have reached a compromise on the controversial corporate tax…

Archived: Baker: Hydro Power Key to Stabilizing Price of Electricity

Legislation filed today by the Baker administration to increase purchases of hydroelectric power from Canada takes a constructive…

Archived: Budget Plan Includes T Reforms, Troubling Tax Reversal

A proposed $38.1 billion state budget to be debated today on Beacon Hill contains no broad-based tax increases…

Archived: Greek Crisis Dampens Employer Confidence

Confidence among Massachusetts employers ebbed for a third consecutive month in June as uncertainty in Greece, Europe and…

Archived: President Seeks Business Support for Export-Import Bank

U.S. President Barack Obama, in a phone call yesterday with AIM’s international trade executive Kristen Rupert and other…

Archived: Trade Vote Benefits Massachusetts Economy

Weeks of heart-stopping twists and turns in the debate over international trade agreements finally appear to have ended…

Archived: Non-Compete, Independent Contractor Issues Define State Approach to New Economy

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…