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		<title>7 Principles for Good Government are 7 Principles for Life and Business Too</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson carries his Seven Principles of Good Government in his wallet.  They read: Become reality driven. Don’t kid yourself or others. Find out what’s what and base your decisions and actions on that. Always be honest and tell the truth. It’s extremely difficult to do any damage to anybody when you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dearnlawblog.com&amp;blog=8318626&amp;post=571&amp;subd=dearnlaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When your business dies: should you wind up, bankrupt or just walk away?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 05:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a well-documented fact: most small businesses fail.  Over the last several years, I have increasingly had to advise business owners and officers on what to do when it looks like the company just cannot make it another month.  What to do?  Should the business owners file for bankruptcy?  Should they file corporate dissolution [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dearnlawblog.com&amp;blog=8318626&amp;post=492&amp;subd=dearnlaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Background checks and aptitude tests for new hires.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have had my fair share of bad hires these last couple years; let me tell you.  It cost my law firm well into the six figures in wasted payrolls, management problems, lost opportunities, correction of problems, etc., etc., etc.  I cannot spend a lot of time dwelling on it because, wow, the things I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dearnlawblog.com&amp;blog=8318626&amp;post=487&amp;subd=dearnlaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Do Employers Have To Accommodate Alcoholic Employees?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are an employer subject to the American with Disabilities Act or the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (which is a California employer with more than five employees), then you have to think twice before firing an alcoholic employee. Many businesses have zero tolerance policies for alcohol abuse at work.  But twice in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dearnlawblog.com&amp;blog=8318626&amp;post=475&amp;subd=dearnlaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why employers should force sick employees to go home.</title>
		<link>http://dearnlawblog.com/2011/03/21/why-employers-should-force-sick-employees-to-go-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s Elliot, the office cat.  He&#8217;s actually not just an office cat, he&#8217;s my full time cat; but he hates being alone, so he goes to the office with me, where he promptly annoys everyone by sleeping in their inboxes or walking across their keyboards. Elliot runs out the office&#8217;s front door at least once [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dearnlawblog.com&amp;blog=8318626&amp;post=457&amp;subd=dearnlaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You are not your business</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Small business owners often live, eat and breathe their businesses.  They become one with their businesses like Buddhist monks try to become one with the universe.  They have no life outside what they do for a living.  But when I say, &#8220;you are not your business,&#8221; I don&#8217;t mean that in a psychological or metaphysical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dearnlawblog.com&amp;blog=8318626&amp;post=414&amp;subd=dearnlaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What California Employers Need to Know About Final Paychecks</title>
		<link>http://dearnlawblog.com/2011/03/15/what-california-employers-need-to-know-about-final-paychecks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employees come. Employees go. A small business owner that I was speaking to the other day said to me he has a &#8220;zero comeback&#8221; policy for his employees. Once they quit, that&#8217;s a forever choice, zero exceptions. It made me laugh because, as he put it, &#8220;You gotta bury the dead and get on with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dearnlawblog.com&amp;blog=8318626&amp;post=356&amp;subd=dearnlaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The problem of poor work ethics in Southern California</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, a business owner in San Diego told me that she&#8217;s noticed a remarkable difference in the work ethics of employees from Southern California versus the work ethics of employees from the East Coast or the Mid-West.  I have since heard that same complaint echoed by others around me.  And I began [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dearnlawblog.com&amp;blog=8318626&amp;post=320&amp;subd=dearnlaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Independent Contractors Equals Tax Evasion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The original title to this article was: &#8220;Why having 1099 independent contractors working at your business will get your audited by the IRS and the Labor Department for tax evasion.&#8221; I opted for the shorter, if simplistic, title instead. If you are a business owner who is using (or considering using) independent contractors as labor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dearnlawblog.com&amp;blog=8318626&amp;post=63&amp;subd=dearnlaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disability Discrimination: Know the Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toyota Sued By Laid-Off Employees for Disability Discrimination 2010 Former employees of the closed Fremont-based Toyota auto plant have sued the factory and Toyota. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Oakland, California on Wednesday and seeks class-action status. The employees claim that they were unfairly compensated in their severance packages, because they were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dearnlawblog.com&amp;blog=8318626&amp;post=59&amp;subd=dearnlaw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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