Workplace Issues

Fantasy football leagues concern employersRestricted Content

August 13, 2007
Anthony Schoettle
The kickoff of the National Football League season this month has many central Indiana employers fearful that fantasy will encroach on reality. The fretfulness revolves around the start of the fantasy football season, where fans draft real players onto make-believe teams and track their individual performances via organized Web sites.
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Prescription drug abuse on the riseRestricted Content

August 13, 2007
J.K. Wall
When the Department of Justice slapped St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital with a $1.2 million fine last month, it stunned local medical professionals. But the issue behind St. Vincent's troubles is no surprise. The diversion of prescriptions drugs from the medical field into recreational use is a widespread problem in Indiana and the nation.
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Companies must prepare for CEO turnoverRestricted Content

June 18, 2007
J.K. Wall
A methodical process is the right way to change CEOs, according to succession-planning experts. And Indiana needs more of its major corporations to do so. A wave of aging executives is at or near normal retirement age--in Indiana and nationwide. How well those companies' CEOs pass the baton will have a big impact on their companies' futures.
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Office fight puts print firm on spotRestricted Content

June 18, 2007
Cory Schouten
A local printing powerhouse is trying to regain the confidence of its employees and customers after the CEO and his secretary were involved in a profanity-laced physical altercation at work.
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WellPoint CFO's affairs exposed by lawsuitRestricted Content

June 11, 2007
J.K. Wall
In this era of hyper-scrutiny of corporate ethics, even messy personal lives can fell the career of a "well-loved and well-respected" executive. Such appears to be the case with David C. Colby, whom WellPoint Inc. forced to resign as its vice chairman and chief financial officer on May 30 for violating the company's code of conduct in a "non-business" way.
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Ex-Norwood execs say company cheated them out of millionsRestricted Content

February 19, 2007
Jennifer Whitson
Indianapolis-based Norwood Promotional Products is facing legal challenges from a half-dozen former executives who say board members and investors conspired to fire them, withhold severance pay and cheat them out of as much as $3.6 million in company stock.
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Firearm advocates take aim at employers' restrictionsRestricted Content

December 25, 2006
Peter Schnitzler
Legislators in the upcoming session of the Indiana General Assembly are gearing up for a gunfight with high-caliber business implications. On one side are employees who prefer to pack heat during their commute. On the other are executives who see guns as a liability nightmare--even if they're locked in cars parked outside.
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Mixing religion, business leads to risks, rewardsRestricted Content

December 11, 2006
Peter Schnitzler
Navigating the intersection between creed and commerce can betricky. Fearing lawsuits, many companies prefer to avoid it whenever possible. But others unabashedly intertwine religion and business.
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  1. These higher rates Co. e about only because physicians are now hospital employees. otherwise physicians couldn't charge these rates and share the windfall with the hospital. Community/rural hospitals probably not buying physicians practices and thus weren't getting the windfall anyway.

  2. The incentive for poor people to get themselves off public assistance and "no longer be poor" is even with help...they're STILL POOR! Being poor, even with some assistance, isn't all that pleasant. (I speak from experience) It's a stubborn myth that poor people, who are on public assistance, are sitting in the lap of luxury. You should try living on just those "freebies" that you mentioned and see how meager they actually are. By the way, I didn't mean you had to buy/own a puppy...just pet one. :)

  3. As near as I can tell the minority has ZERO constitutional obligation to offer a quorum to the majority. A requirement for quorum was inserted into the constitution so that tyrannical majorities could not simply shove through odious and objectionable legislation (which is exactly what they did.) By allowing a tyrannical majority to charge fines against the minority for exercising their constitutional prerogative to deny quorum the court as made a mockery of constitutional governance in the state of Indiana.

  4. The voters elected the Reps to make a vote not walk out on the vote. They had to the right to exercise their opinion and vote "no" to the bill. Let me ask you this if you walked out of your job for 5 straight weeks would you get paid? Would you even have a job to go back to? If any elected official walks out on the people they should be arrested for stealing tax dollars from the public. They were elected to do a job and not leave when the job gets stuff.

  5. I have been to several of their locations in Pennsylvania and always go in for 1 item and leave with a basket full of things. I'm very happy they decided on Indiana, now if only they would put the other store in eastside.

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