Author Archives: Jack Lugar
Today our nation honors our veterans. Of course, considering the sacrifices that have been made since the beginning of our country by our men and women of the military, limiting it to just one day a year doesn’t nearly fulfill our obligation to those who have served. While many people serve our veterans voluntarily, there [...]
Is an employer required to give employees time off to vote? While there is no federal law, many states have laws, referred to as “state voting laws” or “state election leave laws,” which do require an employer to give employees time off to vote. Moreover, some of these state laws require that the time off [...]
Here in Indiana, we’re holding our next general election on Tuesday, November 8, 2011, which, at this moment, would be this coming Tuesday. I believe it is a very important election. However, most people, even moderately faithful voters, may not share my opinion. Why? Because voters often put a greater emphasis on the more exciting [...]
Halloween can be a fun time around the office. It offers a great opportunity to create camaraderie amongst the employees, and ease the stress in a high-intensity office. Some businesses like to do a little pitch-in lunch featuring spooky themed dishes and treats while others enjoy letting their employees forget about the business dress code [...]
Growing up in Indianapolis, I often heard the story about the House of Blue Lights. It was the story of a rich young widower who was so pained by the death of his bride that he had her placed in a glass coffin lit by blue lights and kept her in one of the upper [...]
Did you know that the federal government enacted the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, which required rental property owners to send all vendors who did work valued at $600 or more in a year an IRS 1099 form? If you did, you may not know that the portion of the new law requiring such [...]
Last Friday several of us from the Indiana office of The Foster Group took the opportunity to serve dinner at the Kenneth Butler Memorial Soup Kitchen in Greenfield. It was a wonderful opportunity to give back. It was also nice because we were able to make it a family event and share the experience with [...]
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. Agnes Repplier (American essayist) Unfortunately, Reese Witherspoon was too late with her sage advice on MTV’s 2011 Movie Awards show. “If you [take] naked pictures of yourself on your cell phone, you hide your face, people! Hide your face!” Maybe if she had just shared [...]
Recently it was reported that Bob Dylan has assumed the title of most quoted musician (or lyricist) in the US court system. Apparently our justices have an affinity for “The Voice of a Generation.” In 2007, Professor Alex Long of the University of Tennessee did a content analysis and found 186 references from Dylan’s work [...]
Unions, Business, and Employees with Sway: A High Stakes Game of Cat and Mouse
By Jack Lugar | March 16, 2011
Football and the law rarely intersect in a fun way, but the looming demise of the 2011 NFL season creates an opportunity to see that dynamic. For Hoosiers, it is a very dark cloud not only because we may not get to see our beloved Colts play next season but more importantly because we are [...]
