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Norwegian Cruise Line will pay back wages to Hawaii workers
Norwegian Cruise Line agreed to pay $526,602 in back wages to 2,059 employees in Hawaii after a federal labor investigation found that the company had violated minimum wage, overtime and record-keeping provisions for employees on the Pride of America cruise ship.
The investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor
Finding a Balance Between Delegating and Micromanaging
Alexandra Mayzler’s delegation skills have vastly improved since we first met. But at the last meeting of our business group, she said she’s still too involved with the day-to-day minutiae of running her business, Thinking Caps Tutoring. “I want to move away from all hands on deck to each person has responsibilities,” Ms. Mayzler said.
The issues became more pressing, Ms. Mayzler said, after the company expanded from New York to Houston and Austin, Tex., and began hiring employees with managerial functions in addition to the tutors. Thinking Caps now has one education coordinator in Austin and one in Houston. In New York, Ms. Mayzler employs an operations manager and a math coordinator. Shes also about to hire an education coordinator.
“I need to understand how to guide people and set expectations,” she said.
Susan Parker, a business group member, said she and her sister had had similar problems at their company, Bari Jay, until recently. She recalle
ISDS PHD STUDENT ACCEPTED AS MEMBER OF KPMG PHD PROJECT
– LSU Ph.D. student Raven Dora has been accepted to the KPMG PhD Project Information Systems Doctoral Students Association, or ISDSA.
Members of ISDSA are granted access to other minority doctoral students and faculty throughout the U.S. through the ISDSA website, the Association’s annual conference and electronic list servers.
Each year, ISDSA members meet at The PhD Project ISDSA conference prior to the Americas Conference on Information Systems Annual Meeting to discuss issues relevant to members’ studies, including research trends and teaching effectiveness. Members of The PhD Project Doctoral Student Associations have a 90 percent doctoral completion rate as compared to the national average of 70 percent.
Dora, who received her bachelor’s and master’s in computer science from Southern University, is an instructor at Baton Rouge Community College.
“Because I am enrolled in a doctoral program that is very multi-disciplinary, the PhD Project will afford me the opportunity to be placed among my peers who are also engaging in research and studying similar subjects,” Dora said.“As a Ph.D. student, the pro
Big Island bag ban to take effect next year
Big Island Mayor Billy Kenoi has signed legislation banning businesses from handing out free plastic shopping bags.
The Hawaii Tribune Herald reports that Hawaii County’s new law won’t take effect until Jan. 17, 2013, and will permit businesses to sell plastic shopping bags for one year after that. The newspaper notes that the Big Island bag ban follows similar legislation enacted in Maui and Kauai counties.
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RICHARDSON APPEARS ON WWL TO DISCUSS BOWL GAMES’ IMPACT
NEW ORLEANS – James Richardson, director of the LSU Public Administration Institute and the Harris J. and Marie P. Chustz Distinguished Professor in Business Administration, appeared on WWL to discuss the impact the All-State Sugar Bowl and the Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game have for the area.
“Brand new people, tourists that would not be there except for these two games being played there,” Richardson said.
Richardson went on to say that because this is New Orleans’ turn to host the championship game, the exposure is all the more greater.