An article in the Baltimore Sun highlights the continued fight over the dismissal of a state employee who was fired the day after being quoted in The Sun about a land deal that saw the state overpaying for farmland on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The kicker? The owner of the land was a for-profit company that […]

I found a blog post from late August in the Baltimore Sun that cites the highly publicized census report on state-by-state income. As some of you may know, Maryland is now the state with the highest median income in the country. The post pointed out that, in Maryland, the median income for women was 81.4% […]

There is a great editorial in the Baltimore Sun today entitled When Bosses Go Bad. The piece talks in-depth about the idea of proposed legislation in at least four states that would allow employees to sue their bosses for creating “abusive work environments.” The piece talks about the dangers of allowing that type of legislation […]

So, Mick’s on vacation, and that means I have to write some blog posts. No problem, there’s always something floating around in my head and occasionally that something offers the added bonus of being meaningful. In Mick’s absence, I will toil tirelessly toward blogging excellence; I’ll carry the torch, if you will, for a week […]

On the surface, a recent law passed in Maryland, the “Living Wage” law, may appear to be a coup for employees and would-be employees in Maryland. The law raises the minimum wage for employees working for state contractors to $11.30 per hour for those in the Baltimore-DC area and to $8.50 per hour for those […]

Huh? OK, if you think that the current income tax system is not a legally sanctioned version of me taking your wallet and running, let me know. I will, however, be sure to heap scorn and vitriolic abuse upon you with such vehemence that you’ll wonder how words can hurt so much.
Just a reminder though […]

There is a great post from YourHRGuy.com about how Non-Compete Agreements are Bogus that I think hits the nail right on the head. If you’ve ever been lucky enough to be on the receiving end of one of these agreements, I think you may understand what we’re saying. These agreements are most often entirely too […]

Despite the fact that Britney Spears and Kevin Federline have been on countless magazine covers and featured on practically every television news program for the past couple of years, I can’t claim to know too much about them.
Frankly, I didn’t care to know too much about them, so I largely ignored them. Yet through osmosis […]