Stressed out from her job as the manager of Brewed Awakening, a Houston-area coffee shop, Mary Jane Blunt heads to Colorado with her family for a well-deserved Spring Break ski vacation. Blunt is excited to learn that Colorado recently legalized marijuana. While on vacation, Blunt fully enjoys Colorado’s beautiful slopes and relaxed drug laws.
Have Gun, Will Travel? [Part Two] – Owner’s Liability to Employees for Violent Acts
Last month Tilting pondered an owner’s liability to customers from violence at the midnight showing of “Paladin – the Gentleman Black Knight” – the remake. Patrons and employees alike were ambushed at the Orpheum Theater. According to news reports the Paladin look-alike bought a ticket. After the movie started he slipped out through an emergency
Part Time Work – Part Time Healthcare?
By the end of 2013, The Codfather Seafood Restaurant’s workforce of over 400 full-time employees must be reduced to less than 50 full-time employees. Willy Fry, owner of the Codfather Seafood chain, is also requiring his managers to limit all part-time employees to less than 28 hours a week. Why?
Willy believes the Patient Protection
You Have the Right to Vote MY WAY: Can Companies Influence their Employee’s Vote?
Barack Romney owns a timber and building products business. Earlier this month he mailed his employees a packet suggesting that many of the company’s more than 50,000 U.S. employees and contractors may suffer consequences of higher gasoline prices, runaway inflation, and other ills if we elect a candidate who want to “spend money on subsidies,
Coming Up Short: Is it the Height of Prejudice Not to Hire Short People?
Wanting to bolster attendance for his newly acquired and struggling Marfa baseball team, the Giants, Bick Benedict sent his scout team looking for someone who was extremely short. Bick settled on Jett Rink. Anticipating that Major League Baseball would reject Rink, Bick got the contract approved late on a Friday. When Jett stepped up
Avoiding Job Applicants Who Tip the Scales
Kev Orkian the CEO of Muleshoe Medical Center decided all hospital employees’ physique “should fit within a representational image or specific mental projection of the job of a healthcare professional.” Kev decreed that any job applicant with a body mass index over 35 (245 pounds for someone 5-foot-10) was obese and need not apply. Beyond
Immigration – In or Out?
Sean D’Leer and Patty O’Door are the proud owners of STD Contractors, a heavy construction business in Texas. They are starting to see more large commercial development activity and are considering hiring more laborers to staff up for what they hope to be a sustained economic recovery. However, all of the recent news about immigration
Collision Course – Are Football Players Also Employees?
Conner “Big Hit” Carter retired from professional football 10 years ago after a highly acclaimed career. Big Hit’s punishing tackles earned him numerous pro bowl appearances as well as a hefty pay check and several head injuries. Recently, Big Hit has experienced Alzheimer’s-like symptoms including memory loss, depression and severe mood swings causing him to
ObamaCare: Is it Really Out of the Woods?
Dan Driver’s rapidly growing computer IT business Byte Back is busier than ever and needs help. Not forgetting his cash flow crunches of 2007, Dan is watching labor costs steadily rise. Healthcare insurance is his #2 greatest expense behind wages. All of this talk about employee healthcare insurance has left Byte Back paralyzed as an
Workers’ Compensation Insurance – Buying “the Shield” or “Going Bare”
Rocky Haire (the actual name of an attorney in town who gave permission for it to be used in this article) is thinking about opening his own small business Fine and Dandy Confectioners. He is considering purchasing medical and wage benefits for his employees because he expects the 8-10 new employees will stack crates head