Assembly Bill 132 requires that employers with more than 11 permanent employees grant a leave of absence without pay for not more than five consecutive days or 15 days total to employees serving in an emergency service operation of the Civil Air Patrol.
… I am thrilled to see so many states now jumping on the bandwagon to protect CAP members with the same rights afforded to our military reservists and National Guardsmen.
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Wisconsin joins CA in supporting Civil Air Patrtol Members
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California supports CAP Members with the Employment Protection Act
The measure assures that members of the all-volunteer Civil Air Patrol in the state of California will have employment protection after returning to their jobs from an authorized emergency mission.
… AB 485 establishes a right to employment leave (up to 10 days a year) for members of the California Wing of CAP, which is an official Civilian Auxiliary of the U.S. -
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So ever since jumping back into the corporate world full time I’ve kind of slacked off and haven’t been doing a whole lot to secure that additional revenue stream and it’s something that has really been bothering me, especially given the recent conditions. … Thankfully an old buddy got in touch with me on Facebook recently and he happened to remind me of a great opportunity that can bring in some pretty decent revenue or become a full time income if you choose to make it such.
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Who Killed the Electric Car?
Are you tired of dropping your paycheck at the pump these days?… I also wanted an SUV for the wife and kid. There just wasn’t anything on the market that was decent, and to make matter worse, you had to pay a pretty steep premium which in the long run, for those don’t hold on to their cars for long, it came out as a losing proposition. So what about all those predictions that every car would be electric by the year 2000?… My buddy Digital Bill, over at the Wizards of Technology, and I were having a little chat about this very thing tonight…. I think these will open your eyes just a tad bit and make you wonder why the hell we are having to pay close to $4 /gallon for fuel these days. All I can say is that I’m ticked off as hell. We really need to start questioning our elected officials as to why we are in the current state of fuel crisis when we have had the ability to change things for over a decade.
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Careful what you blog…
Last time I checked, we lived in the United States of America and as a citizen of this great nation, I was under the assumption that I was entitled to our constitutionally protected right to freedom of speech. Apparently that doesn’t apply if you piss off a big corporation with more money than you and a legal team.What I find even more disturbing is the ease in which such groundless lawsuits can be filed in todays legal system…. This kind of retaliation against free speech is despicable, incomprehensible and legal action against the ad agency should be taken with extreme prejudice for wasting tax payers money and the courts time on such rubbish. Be sure to follwo the links in the story below and read the full scoop.[ via Recently ]Lance Dutson was just doing what bloggers do: reporting when they see something stupid. In this case, he thought his home state of Maine was flushing his tax money down the drain with a poor PR campaign for the state’s tourism. Tourism is the number one money maker for the state.But apparently that’s not OK with Warren Kremer Paino Advertising , a New York-based ad agency who the State was hired to draft the campaign.When Dutson reposted images that were currently viewable for public inspection on the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development website, and critiqued them…… To the tune of more than a million dollars.Lance is a man who is a web designer and who has a family, and is a self-described “middle of the road” Maine citizen. But if he’s looses, they’ll be in the poor house.All because Warren Kremer Paino Advertising is miffed that Lance didn’t like their work.I’m going out on a limb here…
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Soaring oil prices send Exxon Mobil to No. 1 on Fortune 500 list
If you think the oil industry is hurting, you need to wake up and smell the crude oil baby. Times have never been better and you can thank the oil tycoons running the White House for it…. to the top of the 2006 Fortune 500 list, and consigned Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to the No. 2 spot on the magazine’s annual ranking of the nation’s largest publicly traded companies.Fortune compiled its list based on companies’ 2005 revenues. Exxon Mobil raked in $340 billion in revenue, a 25.5 percent increase over 2004, and had $36.1 billion in profits, the most by any U.S. company in history.Exxon Mobil last appeared at No…. have topped the list since its inception in 1954.Wal-Mart had $315.654 billion in revenue, a 9.5 percent increase from last year. Because of its pervasive U.S. presence, the world’s largest retailer has struggled to sustain profit growth in the high teens as it had in previous years.Other oil producers also rose in the rankings, boosted by crude prices that topped $70 a barrel and gasoline prices that surpassed $3 a gallon after hurricanes battered the Gulf Coast.Both ChevronTexaco Corp…. Let them feel some pain and tell them bisonium.com said to STFU and lower their prices!
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Report: Ford to Outsource IT, Engineering to India
As if US auto-makers don’t have enough problems right now, it looks like Ford will be adding to the unemployment rate by shipping even more US jobs overseas to India. This is exactly the kind of actions that will eventually lead to a MAJOR technology crisis in this country in the not too distant future. I am a veteran and have always believed in buying American, but it seems that even American made products aren’t American anymore. I love my Ford F-150, but my next car is ging to be a BMW and I don’t feel an ounce of regret. By the time American corporations feel the effects of what they are doing now to save a buck, it will be all but too late to recover. [ via Information Week ]Report: Ford to Outsource IT, Engineering to India:A newspaper in India says Ford Motor Company is planning to dramatically increase its use of outsourced IT and engineering labor.
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Bangalore boom
The formula is quite simple: Go to school, excel at your chosen major, walk out with a degree AND an education, get paid a ton of money (at least it is for them) to do what you love…. And as I have been a victim of myself, if you do your job TOO WELL, then you are too valuable to promote and your opportunities to advance up the corporate ladder will pass you by as some less than qualified idiot takes your position, all thanks to the fear of litigation involved in letting someone go (ie FIRING THEM) for simply being incompetent…. Corporate executives expect that you will work for wages that would have been considered “fair” over 10 years ago. It seems like we cant get past that mentality these days, even though our economy and cost of living has skyrocketed over the same period of time…. So tell me this corporate geniuses, how can we afford to buy a new home if you are still paying us wages from 10 years ago in today’s economy?… Here are the very same folks taking our jobs, getting paid 1/10th or LESS than what we get here in the states, yet they are living the life with beautiful homes, chauffeured cars, maids and cooks…. [via Silicon Beat ] Bangalore boom: Matt already mentioned the stories that colleague John Boureau has written about the Bangalore tech boom…. One slide show features an upscale Bangalore neighborhood that’s become home for many Indians returning from the U.S. One person in the piece says that 80 percent of his neighbors are from the Bay Area. And then there’s the contingent of young Americans who went to work for Ifosys in India to jumpstart their careers, and found many slices of America.
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Yer Home Belong To Us…
Something is just terribly wrong with our government and elected officials. It seems that we are losing more and more rights in this country by the minute. CNN Law Center is reporting that “the US SUpreme Court just ruled that local governments may seize people’s homes and businesses – even against their will – for private economic development.” Ok, so just wait a second.
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Spammer Sentenced to 9 Years in Jail
Thank God that there is a judge and jury with some common sense on this planet! I hope this is a new trend we will see more of. These spammers need to be taught a lesson and this looks like it might finally get the point across. WE DON’T WANT YOUR SPAM! [via Slashdot] Spammer [...]
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