by Jenny Boone | Apr 3, 2017 | Industry News and Articles
IDEAL Electrical Searches for America’s Finest, Offers Opportunity to Showcase Talent, Win Cash Prizes and Tools SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS (March 28, 2017) — Jim James, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of family-owned IDEAL INDUSTRIES, INC., announced today open...
by Jenny Boone | Apr 3, 2017 | Industry News and Articles
Remember playing Pin the Tail on the Donkey when you were a kid? You were shown a picture hanging on a wall of a donkey missing its tail. A parent blindfolded you and spun you around until you were dizzy. Then you were pushed off with a paper tail trying to stick it...
by Jenny Boone | Mar 20, 2017 | Industry News and Articles
Marijuana has medical value in certain conditions. Benefits for many more conditions are claimed, but medical proof is lacking. In some conditions, marijuana may help only a few patients. I believe that if medical marijuana helps a patient, they should have it. The...
by Jenny Boone | Mar 20, 2017 | Industry News and Articles
Did you ever wonder where the terms Journeyman and Master come from? The dictionary describes a Journeyman as a ”worker who has learned a trade and works for another by the day” (Webster). Fun fact, “journey” itself has an antiquated definition of “a day’s labor”...
by Jenny Boone | Mar 8, 2017 | Industry News and Articles
March 10, 2017 7am-2pm IEC Chesapeake, Laurel Campus Please be our guest…at the upcoming SEE, Inc Safety~Fest 2017. This is going to be an educational but fun filled day of learning. We will have a total of four training tracks to choose your...
by Jenny Boone | Mar 8, 2017 | Industry News and Articles
Question: Our company recently made some changes, and we no longer have more than 50 employees. How do we handle our prior FMLA obligations (50 or more employees)? Do we have to wait a certain time period before we no longer are required to provide FMLA leave?...