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Kevin S. Murphy is an employment lawyer with the firm of Yurko, Salvesen & Remz, PC, in Boston.
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Archived: Massachusetts Eats its Peas without Washington Budget Acrimony
Boston and Washington provided a study in contrasts this week on the ability of government to manage its expenses…
July 15, 2011
Read MoreArchived: Paid Sick Days Proposal is Anti-Jobs, Anti-Choice
AIM will speak at a Beacon Hill hearing today on behalf of thousands of Massachusetts employers who fear…
July 14, 2011
Read MoreArchived: More Employers Offer Health Insurance, Fewer Employees Take It
The number of Massachusetts employers offering health insurance has increased since the landmark 2006 state health-care reform, but…
July 13, 2011
Read MoreArchived: Benjamin Franklin, Sales Manager?
Editor’s note – One in an occasional series of articles on sales and sales management in a difficult…
July 12, 2011
Read MoreArchived: View New AIM Webinar | Solving the Health Cost Crisis: Who’s on First?
Massachusetts has a once-in-a-generation opportunity in 2011 to solve the crisis of rising health care costs that is…
July 7, 2011
Read MoreArchived: Massachusetts Employer Confidence Slips into Neutral
Confidence among Massachusetts employers slipped into neutral last month, reflecting a national economy that likewise appears to have…
July 5, 2011
Read MoreArchived: State Budget Balances Books without New Taxes; Treble Fix Omitted
First the good news: The $30.6 billion budget that lawmakers are expected to send to Governor Deval Patrick…
July 1, 2011
Read MoreArchived: Korean Ambassador Backs Trade Deal as President, Congress Near Accord
On a day when the White House and Congressional Republicans struck a deal to advance the long-delayed Korea-US…
June 30, 2011
Read MoreArchived: Employers, Consumers Hold Key to Resolving Health Cost Crisis
Massachusetts will solve its health-care cost crisis only if employers and consumers become engaged in the issue and…
June 28, 2011
Read MoreArchived: Employers Applaud New Standards for Teacher Evaluation
The Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education today adopted new statewide teacher-evaluation regulations that place significant emphasis…
June 28, 2011
Read MoreArchived: NLRB Rule Seeks to Speed Pace of Union Elections
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) continued its effort to reshape labor-management relations yesterday by proposing regulations that…
June 22, 2011
Read MoreArchived: AG’s Health-Cost Mystery Release is Must Reading for Employers
Looking for a blockbuster to read at the beach this summer? Attorney General Martha Coakley and the Mystery…
June 22, 2011
Read MoreArchived: State, Federal Courts Rule for Employers in Workplace-Law Cases
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) and the U.S. Supreme Court have come down on the side of…
June 20, 2011
Read MoreArchived: State Supreme Court Broadens Review of Cape Wind Approval
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will determine whether Massachusetts energy regulators should reconsider their approval of the Cape…
June 17, 2011
Read MoreArchived: Senate Municipal Plan Design Language Falls Short ” Undercuts Savings
Associated Industries of Massachusetts is asking lawmakers to adopt the House version of a bill giving cities and…
June 14, 2011
Read MoreArchived: Senate Moves to Boost Efficiency of Massachusetts State Government
The Massachusetts Senate took an important step to improve the efficiency of state government Thursday by approving a…
June 10, 2011
Read MoreArchived: Employers Ask Budget Conferees to Narrow Treble-Damage Law
AIM today urged the conference committee hammering out next year’s state budget to include a House provision narrowing…
June 9, 2011
Read MoreArchived: Performance-Driven Employers Back New Approach to Teacher Evaluation
Massachusetts employers accustomed to using measurable results to evaluate employee performance and improve quality will find much to…
June 8, 2011
Read MoreArchived: Massachusetts Energy Laws Threaten Economic Future
Massachusetts must reform a tangle of often-conflicting energy laws that have failed to live up to their promise while driving…
June 8, 2011
Read MoreArchived: Employer Confidence Drops Amid Signs of Slowdown
Confidence among Massachusetts employers slipped in May amid growing signs that the economic recovery is sputtering.
June 7, 2011
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