Articles Posted in August, 2013

Man pays court-ordered settlement in quarters — 600,000 of them!

August 2, 2013 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Seriously, how pissed off do you need to be to pay out $150,000 of a court-ordered settlement in quarters? Jacob Gershman of The Wall Street Journal‘s Law Blog, writes here that a retired surgeon had a unique way of expressing his displeasure with having to pay out a sizable chunk of court-ordered change.

GUEST POST: Six key aspects of an employee wellness program

August 1, 2013 | by Eric B. Meyer

Today we have a guest blogger at The Employer Handbook. It’s Joel Cook. Joel is head of strategy at EDP where a team of health & safety consultants work to help businesses improve their employees’ health and wellbeing.

(Want to guest blog on an employment-law topic at The Employer Handbook? Email me).

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