Most nonunion employers understandably pay relatively little attention to the National Labor Relations Board’s decisions and regulations. The NLRB administers the National Labor Relations Act and most often decides cases involving attempts to form a union or conduct of an employer dealing with its employees’ union. more

During pretrial discovery in civil litigation, businesses can incur substantial legal fees and must allocate significant staff hours to comply with their document production obligations. With the predominance of electronically stored information in daily business practices, responsive documents are no longer typically found in hard copy form within office file cabinets or at off-site warehouses, but rather are stored on back-up tapes, hard drives and digital media. Business and employment lawsuits can necessitate the review of thousands (and at times millions) of pages of electronic information during pretrial proceedings. more

To the Editor: I am writing this letter in response to an article by Patrick Anderson that ran in Providence Business News recently (“Twenty years on, court ruling changes condo law,” Sept. 10, 2012). more

Someone once said that, “Home is the place that you go where they have to take you in.” more

Changes in health care laws and labor relations will affect businesses dramatically next year, but many human resources managers at a Providence Business News-sponsored Employment Trends 2013 summit said they consider social media a contender for a top spot on the list of concerns. more

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Rhode Island businesses face major developments in employment issues in 2013, with health care reform and labor regulations at the top of the list. Social media continues to be a challenge, with its expanding potential and its own share of annoyances. more

Joel Tenenbaum just received his doctorate at Boston University, where he’ll start teaching statistics courses to MBA students this fall. more

Merrill W. Sherman knows a few things about banking. In the early 1990s, she was named president, chairman and CEO of Eastland Financial Corp., and was charged with turning that institution around after years of losing money. She did it. more

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin and Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley this month announced they have joined a coalition of other attorneys general representing 46 states and territories in urging Congress to adequately fund programs to combat human trafficking. more