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  • North Bay jobs picture shows continued strengthening in April

    May 18th, 2012

    Unemployment rates across the North Bay had the seasonal drop in April from March but were markedly improved from figures for the previous April, as private-sector hiring increased in some counties while it remained flat in others, according to state figures released today.

  • Kaiser to launch family medicine residency program

    May 14th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — Kaiser Permanente’s Santa Rosa Medical Center will launch a family medicine residency program to expand the number of primary care physicians being trained in Sonoma County, it was announced today.

  • Experts urge caution in ruling on meal and rest breaks

    May 14th, 2012

    NORTH BAY — A recent state Supreme Court decision has greatly clarified the long contentious issue of when and how employers must provide meal and rest breaks — or at least the opportunity for meal and rest breaks — but employers still need to think carefully about the matter, employment law experts said.

  • Managing your workplace within the law

    May 14th, 2012

    There are a multitude of laws that tell us how we can and cannot treat our employees. Mistakes in this area can be very costly, in terms of both time and financial impacts. Human resources laws that apply to you will vary based on where you do business. There are both Federal and State Laws that apply to your business. In addition, some cities have local ordinances as well. Here in California we have a lot of human resource laws that go well beyond the Federal requirements.

  • Assembly approves Casino in Rohnert Park

    May 10th, 2012

    ROHNERT PARK — The California State Assembly today approved a pact between the state and the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria that will allow for a Las Vegas-style casino on the outskirts of Rohnert Park, a move that all but assures construction will begin on the controversial project.

  • Altec prepares to open green fleet assembly plant in Dixon

    May 7th, 2012

    DIXON – Altec Industries Inc. plans to officially open its newly constructed $5.5 million Green Fleet utility vehicle final assembly plant this month, pending receipt of an occupancy permit.

  • Psych hospital opening pushed to August

    May 5th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — The long-awaited opening of a 93-bed psychiatric hospital in Santa Rosa has been pushed back until August due to construction delays, according to the forthcoming hospital’s chief executive officer.

  • California’s latest casualty: The young family

    April 26th, 2012

    The political class in Sacramento is obsessed with raising taxes, enacting new regulatory schemes and green economy pipedreams. But they should be focused on this stunning trend.

  • Queen of the Valley to lay off 55 employees

    April 25th, 2012

    NAPA — Queen of the Valley Medical Center said today it is eliminating 55 jobs, the result of the hospital needing to fill an $8.3 million budget deficit created in large part by the economic downturn, decreased reimbursements for patient care services, fluctuating patient volumes, and increases in charity care and bad debt. The reductions will save the hospital approximately $3.2 million, according to the 191-bed hospital.

  • Best Places to Work nominations close Friday

    April 25th, 2012

    NORTH BAY — Nominations for the North Bay Business Journal’s seventh annual Best Places to Work competition will close Friday, April 27.

  • 4.1 percent workers comp increase proposed

    April 23rd, 2012

    NORTH BAY — Employers will likely face an increase in their workers compensation premiums in the coming year, as the cost of medical utilization and permanent disability continues to rise, according to brokers.

  • North Bay unemployment rates rise slightly in March

    April 20th, 2012

    Unemployment rates across the North Bay increased slightly in March, but the still-high rates were well below rates a year ago, according to state figures released this morning.

  • Are you an employee or independent contractor?

    April 16th, 2012

    With the recent passage of California Senate Bill 459, it is more important than ever that employers closely analyze any independent contractors with whom they work to verify that they do indeed meet the state and federal guidelines for that classifications. As discussed in the following article, the penalties for misclassification are now substantial.

  • As groups mobilize to save Lucas project, company says decision final

    April 13th, 2012

    SAN RAFAEL — County of Marin officials have been busy trying to convince filmmaker George Lucas to continue pursuing his Grady Ranch digital media studio, and local business groups have launched a new joint effort to help keep and attract employers like him.

  • Lucas withdraws Grady Ranch studio project

    April 10th, 2012

    SAN RAFAEL — Filmmaker George Lucas has dropped plans to build a 270,000-square-foot digital movie studio northwest of San Rafael and will take the project elsewhere, his real estate company announced this afternoon.

  • NUHW, Memorial agree on union contract

    April 9th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — updated 3:11 p.m. — The National Union of Healthcare Workers today said it reached a tentative agreement with Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital that allows for across-the-board wage increases and other benefits, which the union called “a huge victory” that ends nine years of union-organization efforts at Sonoma County’s biggest hospital.

  • St. Joseph Health faces class-action lawsuit over patient data exposure

    April 9th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — A class-action lawsuit has been filed against St. Joseph Health System, which operates Santa Rosa Memorial, Petaluma Valley and Queen of the Valley hospitals, for allowing private patient data to be searchable online for 31,800 patients across the system’s California hospitals, including about 10,000 patients locally.

  • Report: Employers more confident about hiring

    April 9th, 2012

    NORTH BAY — Employers in Sonoma County are more confident about the prospect of hiring in the second quarter compared to last year, with 13 percent saying they expected to increase staffing levels, according to a quarterly survey by ManpowerGroup, an international staffing firm with a Santa Rosa location. And overall in the North Bay, employers are generally more confident about the economy than they have been, suggesting that a slow but steady economic recovery is wending its way through region, employment experts said.

  • Employers urged to stay the course on health care reform — for now

    April 9th, 2012

    NORTH BAY — With the federal health overhaul hanging in the balance of what will most certainly be a politically charged U.S. Supreme Court decision, insurance brokers in the North Bay offered a familiar refrain to employers on what changes, if any, they should make to their health plans: wait and see and stay the course.

  • San Rafael chamber, city, Dominican partner in ‘greening’ project

    April 2nd, 2012

    SAN RAFAEL — The City of San Rafael, Dominican University and the San Rafael Chamber of Commerce have teamed up with Natural Capitalism Solutions, a nonprofit that consults businesses on greening strategies, to form a partnership aimed at providing businesses with affordable measures for creating sustainable practices.

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