I recently had a client with an interesting problem related to timekeeping practices. If you employ non-exempt (hourly) staff, in order to calculate their pay you need to have the number of hours that they worked in a pay period. A lot of folks use the good old...
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When I conduct sexual harassment training for various clients, I tend to focus on two subjects that are management-related: culture and retaliation. Cultivating an Office Culture Culture is something that the business owners and managers get to control. They get to determine the kind of culture that...
The month of April brings the end of the Maryland General Assembly Session. This year brought a couple of labor issues that small business owners need to be aware of. The first is that Maryland has joined a growing number of jurisdictions who have passed a...
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I know what you're thinking: how could teenage drivers and small biz owners possibly have anything in common? When my teenage daughter was learning how to drive, I found myself saying "What did you do that?!" in a moment of panic. Over the years, I've...
Here is a problem that often troubles many clients, and it's often troubled me as a small business and law firm owner, as well. Many businesses struggle attracting and advertising to clients. For us at the law firm we rely heavily upon referrals and relationships,...
Remember when you were a kid (or maybe more recently for some of us) and you happened to be looking at someone and they asked in a rather hostile tone, “What are you looking at?” The standard response, at least for me, was, “Nothing much.” ...
I grew up in a small brick rowhouse in a neighborhood about a half-mile outside of Baltimore City, Maryland. My front yard was about the size of a postage stamp and the backyard was about the size of an envelope. In order to avoid having...