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Sick Leave for Your Employees: Why it Matters

crowdSPRING Blog

Beginning next month businesses in New York City that have 20 or more employees will be required to provide a minimum of 5 paid sick days for those workers every year. San Francisco, for instance, in 2007 passed the first such law and in 2012 Connecticut became the first state requiring such coverage.

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Export Online Without Frontiers: A Global Map of B2B Marketplaces

The Startup Magazine

In fact, the Connecticut-based firm does not charge any fee for buyers willing to place orders. Founded in New York City in 2012, Kinnek bases its business model on quality over quantity. It is actually half Chinese: while based in Dallas, Texas, it has main offices also in Wuhan and Shanghai. Kinnek is the newcomer.

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Piers, Parks and Why White People Suck

This is going to be BIG.

Some of the people who live near the park who believe they''re owed a quiet street in New York City aren''t so thrilled. As of the 2010 census, it checked in at 77% white, as opposed to the rest of the city, which comes in around 45%. People use the park and people love it. Well, most people. Who are these people?

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We are the greed we protest against #occupywallst

This is going to be BIG.

A report was just released that shows New York City average fire department pensions are nearing $90,000. Firemen alone in 2010 cost the city nearly a billion dollars in pension payouts, and those numbers only reflect worstening numbers across the board. Look no further than public sector employees and their unions.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Our response has been very favorable and we’ve expanded into Ohio and Connecticut in addition to launching a related site for comparison shopping for residential natural gas. We created a site that provides an apples-to-apples comparison between plans and lets users accurately price their choices for electricity.

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Why Having A BHAG Is Critical To Your Company’s Success

YoungUpstarts

We started franchising and slowly expanded from Fairfield County in Connecticut over to New York. I realized we were really taking off once we opened operations in the New York City and Long Island markets. I was crushing goals as The Junkluggers grew, but I was deeply worried about losing this momentum.