Career & Workplace

How Will Availability of Recreational Marijuana Affect the Workplace?

Talking Pot By Erica E. Flores, Esq. It took almost two years, but Massachusetts regulators have finally started to issue licenses to businesses looking to grow, manufacture, distribute, and sell […]

Legislature Passes Bill Restricting Non-compete Agreements

Language Course By Timothy M. Netkovick, Esq. Big changes may be on the horizon regarding non-competition agreements. For the first time, there may be legal restrictions on the terms of […]

Snapchef Cooks Up a Lifeline for the Food-service Industry

The Heat Is On The culinary world is a notoriously challenging place to forge a career, and turnover at the entry level is often high, a problem that constantly challenges […]

Seven Facts About the Growing STEM Workforce

By the Numbers By Nikki Graf, Richard Fry, and Cary Funk Employment in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) occupations has grown 79% since 1990, from 9.7 million to 17.3 […]

Free Speech in the Workplace Can Be a Thorny Topic

Shades of Gray Recent high-profile issues around free speech in the workplace — from the NFL’s new national-anthem policy to ABC’s blackballing of Roseanne Barr — have elicited much debate […]

The Impact of ‘America First’ on Employment-based Immigration

Under Pressure By Marylou Fabbo In the year that’s passed since President Donald Trump signed the Buy American and Hire American Executive Order, there’s been increased federal scrutiny on the […]

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Summer Program Offers Teenagers a Paycheck — and Much More

Leg Up on Life It’s hardly news that far fewer teenagers work during the summer than they did decades ago, for many reasons. Those who do want to work are […]

How to Effectively Hire Top Candidates with Storytelling

Character-building Exercises By Henry DeVries A tough challenge for many executives is convincing top talent to join their company. A second challenge is training newcomers to understand the company’s core […]

Manufacturing Field Is Turning More Heads

Making Some Progress While the region’s manufacturers continue to struggle to find qualified help and fill the enormous voids being left by retiring Baby Boomers, it appears that some progress […]

Casino Career Training Institute Attracts Diverse Student Body

Rolling the Dice Diane Garvey was at a career crossroads. In a big way. In her 50s, she had spent most of her career working at call centers, as an […]

MGM’s Leadership Group Is Diverse in Every Sense

Team-building Exercise Mike Mathis said he doesn’t use any of those ‘gotcha’ questions, as he calls them, when he’s interviewing job candidates. He said he’s been on the other end […]

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MGM’s CFO Has, Well, a Wealth of Experience

Sidebar Courtney Wenleder was working in Las Vegas, as financial controller for the Bellagio Hotel and Casino, in the summer of 2005 when she was asked to step in and […]

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With July 1 Just Around the Corner, Employers Must Be Ready

The New Pay-equity Law By John S. Gannon, Esq. and Amelia J. Holstrom, Esq. This summer, Massachusetts will enact what many believe to be the most stringent pay-equity legislation in […]

Business Trends Survey Reveals Optimism Tempered by Challenges

Labor Pains Angst. You won’t see that colorful noun written anywhere in the National Business Trends Survey conducted by the Employers Associations of America (EAA), said Mark Adams, but there […]

More Companies See the Benefits of Dogs in the Office

Paws for Effect To some employers, the very idea of having employees’ dogs roaming about the office every day seems absurd. How would anyone get any work done? Would they […]