August 1, 2014
The official start of summer will soon arrive, and with it, millions of high school and college-age students available to help out in your business. Your eyes sparkle with the thought of getting staffing help at reasonable rates (read: cheap labor), which can give your business the boost that it needs. Good, cost-efficient idea, right? Not necessarily. Using workers in your business without paying them could run you afoul of the Federal Labor Standards Act, which does not take a kind view of having people work for no pay (slave owners did that, remember?). As the New Jersey Star-Ledger reported, there are six criteria that an internship needs to meet in order to be properly viewed as an internship and not merely as unpaid work: The intern must receive training similar to what he or she would receive in a vocational school The training must be for the benefit of the intern The intern must not be displacing a regular employee — in other words, doing a regular employee’s work The employer has no “immediate advantage…
Continue ReadingYear after year, I would go in for my annual physical. Much to my surprise (and my doctor’s), despite my enormous stress levels, my blood pressure was always normal. All of my vitals were good.…
Read MoreThis is a video on business partnerships (8 minutes long) from a short speech I gave last year on “Profitable Business Partnerships.” Starring me . . . and my shadow(s) . . . (don’t…
Read MoreQ: I have worked for my dad for more than a decade. He recently told me he wants to stop working but says he is not retiring. He wants to be paid the same amount of…
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