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Archived: Massachusetts Republican Lawmakers Unveil Jobs Plan

Republican state lawmakers today unveiled a comprehensive jobs proposal they say will put the commonwealth on track to…

Archived: Are You On OSHA’s ‘List’ for 2012?

Federal safety regulators are making a list and checking it twice.

Archived: Massachusetts Revenue Commissioner Outlines 360 Feedback Initiative

Editor’s Note – Amy Pitter, Commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Revenue, recently addressed the AIM Taxation Committee…

Archived: AIM Urges Governor to Sign Unemployment Rate Freeze

Associated Industries of Massachusetts urged Governor Deval Patrick today to sign a supplemental budget that would freeze Unemployment…

Archived: Speaker DeLeo Vows Emphasis on Jobs and Economic Growth

Massachusetts House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo outlined a 2012 agenda Wednesday that includes improving the business climate, reforming…

Archived: Business Confidence Grows, But Employers Remain Cautious

Massachusetts employers began 2012 with increased confidence, but that confidence remains more muted than it was a year ago when…

Archived: Trade Mission Participants Draw Roadmap for Doing Business in Brazil

Brazil’s burgeoning middle class and keen interest in Massachusetts-based knowledge industries make the country a key export market…

Archived: Health-Care Market Changes Benefit Massachusetts Employers

You know that health-care cost reform has begun in Massachusetts when an insurance company asks state regulators to…

Archived: Mestek, Orion Find New Business Close to Home in Massachusetts

Richard Kessler of Mestek Inc. in Westfield and Peter Smith of Orion Industries in Ayer both admit to…

Archived: Applicants, Companies Say the Darndest Things During Job Interviews

Archived: Reorganizing Community Colleges Holds Key to Massachusetts Economy

The principal new initiative in Governor Deval Patrick’s State of the Commonwealth address yesterday was a call to…

Archived: Is Your Company on the Human Resources Hot Seat?

Massachusetts companies often delegate human resources to the office manager, finance department or receptionist.  Some employers are just…

Archived: Massachusetts Employers Outline Policy Priorities for 2012

Associated Industries of Massachusetts (AIM) last week released Common Wealth 2012, its statement of the principles and beliefs…

Archived: Nothing is Easy about Sales

Editor’s note – One in an occasional series of articles on sales and sales management in a difficult…

Archived: House, Senate Approve Unemployment Insurance Rate Freeze

The Massachusetts Legislature overwhelmingly approved a supplemental budget last week that would freeze Unemployment Insurance tax rates for 2012 and…

Archived: Massachusetts Economy Prospers, But Where are the Jobs?

Three years after the onset of the great recession, is Massachusetts an economic success story or merely an…

Archived: Recession, Recovery Separate Economic Haves and Have-Nots

The Great Recession and subsequent sluggish recovery have widened the gap between economic “haves” and “have-nots” from the…

Archived: AIM Strengthens Government Affairs Team with Two Appointments

Associated Industries of Massachusetts announced today that it has added one key member to its Government Affairs team…

Archived: House Supplemental Budget Includes Unemployment Rate Freeze

The House Ways and Means Committee reported a supplemental budget bill today with a one-year Unemployment Insurance rate…

Archived: Massachusetts Employers Plan Smaller Pay Hikes than Rest of Nation

Massachusetts may be outperforming the rest of the country economically, but Bay State employers appear unconvinced that the…

Archived: Employer Confidence Remains Subdued at Year End 2011

Massachusetts employers ended 2011 with lingering ambivalence about an economy that seems unable to generate sustained momentum toward…