Has multinational furniture company Ikea been a good corporate citizen in the wake of noted product liability concerns?
Better cultural training may shield businesses from lawsuits
As an employer, your staff depends on you to keep the workplace safe and professional. To do so, you’ve likely set up multiple anti-harassment training sessions to educate your employees on proper work etiquette. Still, discrimination and harassment might be an ongoing issue that leaves your company at risk for a lawsuit. Does it seem like training just isn’t affecting positive change?
What accommodations am I required to make?
When you posted the job vacancy, you likely had the perfect candidate in mind. Perhaps you did not envision a particular person, but you certainly hoped to find someone who was enthusiastic, hard-working and skilled for the position. There were several candidates who came close, and perhaps it was a difficult choice, but you filled the position and prepared to get to work training and acclimating your new hire.
No, it's not marriage, but a business relationship can seem similar
Some people in Ohio and nationally can rightly claim to be married twice: to their spouse and to their business partners.
AT&T/Time Warner merger: Is this going to get done?
If communications giant AT&T has its way, it will soon merge with Time Warner and own outright its Turner Broadcasting unit.
Material update; revisiting contractual arbitration clauses
We noted in a blog post from earlier this year the deep concern of one Ohio legislator and other like-minded thinkers across the country regarding contractual arbitration clauses.
