LANSING - Michigan Legislators will have to produce documents regarding their correspondence with third parties in discovery for litigation, according to a ruling from the bench Friday morning from federal magistrate Judge Ellen Carmody. The ruling came in a suit Tesla Motors has brought against the state, alleging the state discriminated against it by blocking
LANSING - Video surveillance of businesses is a rapidly growing market, and state lawmakers Thursday passed a bill revising the rules so that small firms can have camera systems installed without an electrical inspection. HB 4654 and HB 4655, sponsored by Reps. Michele Hoitenga (R-Manton) and Beth Griffin (R-Mattawan), would allow small security camera systems
LANSING - Go Phish, as in Phishing attacks and how to thwart them, was live webinar that aired March 30 presented by NuWave Technology Partners. It is now available on-demand. To watch, click on https://www.sbam.org/Resources/tabid/97/ArtMID/2980/ArticleID/2784/Go-Phish.aspx
LANSING - April 3rd marked the first day this year that H-1B visa applications were accepted by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services. The date holds particular significance for many employers who hire technical talent, as the H-1B is a vehicle by which many difficult-to-hire IT and engineering vacancies are filled with foreign workers. Historically,
LANSING - Telecommuting offers numerous positives for both employers and employees. A few of those benefits include increasing employee productivity due to fewer distractions, improving employee satisfaction and retention rates, saving employee commuting costs, and offering employees more flexibility with their schedule. According to Global Workplace Analytics, a San Diego-based consulting firm that specializes in
LANSING - The news cycle is getting shorter and our attention span is getting smaller. Native advertising is starting to replace traditional news stories and news rooms are shrinking making it more difficult to get our stories out, build our brands or protect our reputation. At the same time, technology is expanding and with a website,
LANSING - On Monday evening, House Republicans introduced legislation that seeks to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The single most important thing to remember, at least at this moment in time, is that until the Affordable Care Act is not the law of the land, it is the law of the land.
LANSING - Office equipment acts as the guts of your business, making your day-to-day operations possible. The energy needed to power your office equipment certainly comes at a price - representing about 19 percent of total office building expenditures. For Michigan, energy consumption of office equipment alone is between 12-15 percent of total electricity use.
LANSING - According to Global Workforce Analytics 3.7 million employees now work from home at least half the time. In addition, Gallup reports that 37 percent of US workers say they have telecommuted at some point in their career. This is four times greater than just 9 percent back in 1995. With the growing population
LANSING - Michael Rogers, communications officer for the Small Business Association of Michigan, talks with Tom Olive, president of Crystal Flash, a small company that provides energy to customers across the Great Lakes region. Tom discusses their employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), implemented in 2016 when the Fehsenfeld family decided to transition their interest in
