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Archived: Senate Budget Omits Dangerous Contingent Contract Provision

Sometimes a budget is significant more for what it omits than what it includes. That’s the case with…

Archived: Employers Have Stake in Education, Training of Future Workers

Having trouble finding qualified applicants for job openings?

Archived: State Loses Jobs in April; Statistics Lack Consistency

“The unemployment rate is based on a monthly sample of households,” the state’s Executive Office of Labor and…

Archived: Governor Offers Spirited Defense of Tax, Reform Proposal

Archived: AIM Seeks Voice in Deal that Threatens Liability Insurance Coverage

Associated Industries of Massachusetts has joined Procter & Gamble, 3M and other companies in challenging a proposed insurance-company…

Archived: Appeals Court Vacates NLRB Union Posting Rule

It appears increasingly likely that employers will not have to post notices in the workplace informing employees of…

Archived: Employers Remain Ambivalent about Economic Recovery

“The economy as a whole, and business confidence in Massachusetts along with it, is basically treading water.”

Archived: Some Encouraging April Employment Numbers

Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 165,000 in April, and the unemployment rate was little changed at 7.5…

Archived: Small Employers Face Numbers Game on Employment Law

Small employers in Massachusetts are well advised to keep their eyes on the numbers 1, 6, 15, 20…

Archived: Court Closes Workers Compensation Loophole for Staffing Companies

The following guest blog was written by Martha J. Zackin, Esq., Of Counsel to the law firm Mintz,…

Archived: Manufacturing Skills Training Initiative Wins Gould Award from AIM

The Manufacturing Advancement Center Workforce Innovation Collaborative (MACWIC), a voluntary association of more than 90 manufacturers and institutions…

Archived: AG: Oversight Needed to Realize Health Care Cost Control

Attorney General Martha Coakley is warning Massachusetts officials to step up their scrutiny of the health-care market to…

Archived: $34 Billion House Budget Contains Key Provisions for Employers

The Massachusetts House of Representatives last night passed a $34 billion Fiscal Year 2014 budget that increases spending…

Archived: Generational Transition Creates Skills Gap for Massachusetts

Companies are expanding the concept of “succession planning” beyond top executive positions to their entire workforces ” and…

Archived: Workforce Training Fund Streamlines Grant Process

The Massachusetts Workforce Training Fund Program (WTFP) today announced four policy changes that will streamline the grant process…

Archived: AIM Opens Employer Hotline to Companies Affected by Bombing

Associated Industries of Massachusetts is making its members-only Employer Hotline available to all businesses affected by the Boston…

Archived: Boston-Area Lockdown Raises Pay Issues for Employers

Thousands of Massachusetts businesses remained closed Friday as employers in half a dozen communities complied with requests by…

Archived: One Fund Boston Set Up to Accept Donations for Bombing Victims

Employers throughout the commonwealth have contacted Associated Industries of Massachusetts in the past 48 hours to ask where…

Archived: Senate Passes Transportation Bill; Tax Debate Nears Resolution

The Massachusetts Senate approved a transportation funding bill Saturday that would dedicate approximately $800 million per year in…

Archived: AIM Members See Limited Consequences from Sequester

What do AIM members expect from the sequester?

Archived: EMD Millipore, Kinefac and LENOX Win 2013 Global Trade Awards

Life sciences company EMD Millipore of Bedford, metal forming and process technology leader Kinefac Corporation of Worcester and…