New Orleans We’ve all heard the sayings before. A stitch in time saves nine. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Now it seems that with some incentives being provided to hospitals through the Affordable Care Act, some of them are learning these old lessons, perhaps for the first time with feeling. …
Affordable Care Act Backwash
New Orleans Talking to Professor Adam Seth Levine of Cornell University on Wade’s World about his new book, American Insecurity: Why Our Economic Fears Lead to Inaction, about how our political and organizational communication can subvert our own message or “self-undermining rhetoric” in his words, I asked him for his opinion about how the Administration “sold” …
Tough Problems on Overtime for Salaried Workers
New Orleans The Department of Labor has overshot its goal of writing new regulations on overtime rules for salaried workers by about six months. Sometimes the issue is foot dragging, but this time it may be simply the fact that it is a very, very difficult issue to handle. Keep in mind that hourly workers …