One of the major news stories across the United States in the past six months concerns the proliferation of civil unrest and resultant damage to businesses and public property. An unbiased source estimates a total property damage in the U.S. to be somewhere between $1-2 billion.

With the 2020 general election approaching, a review of employees’ rights and employers’ obligations to employees is in order.

To review, whistleblowers are employees who expose fraud, waste or other misconduct occurring within their company. Retaliation against whistleblowers is nothing new, but legislative policies to protect whistleblowers from being fired, harassed or otherwise abused in the workplace are comparatively new.

The theft of intellectual property (IP) from North American businesses is often in the news.

As was reported in this column in October 2019, the National Safety Council reports that Americans became more likely to die from an accidental opioid overdose than from a motor vehicle crash at some point during the past three years.

The National Safety Council reports that at some point during the past three years Americans became more likely to die from an accidental opioid overdose than from a motor vehicle crash.

The U.S. Labor Department reports a national unemployment rate of 3.6% for the latest available statistics (May 2019).

Finished forgings cannot reach their intended markets without the labor of humans.

Forge Fair 2019 will be upon us before we know it (May 21-23 in Cleveland), and it may be a good time to consider some regulations and rules regarding trade shows.

As many of you are aware, the Chinese government has been planning and implementing changes to increase its global manufacturing presence and influence.