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Monday, April 28, 2014
News from MCC Partner New York Grant Company
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
NAWBO Mentoring Program
Is your business reaching its potential? Applications now available for NAWBO-NYC’s Mentoring Program to help grow your business to new heights
NAWBO-NYC’s Mentoring Program is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It’s a chance to grow your revenues, improve your skills, and take your company to the next level.
Applications are now available at http://www.nawbonyc.org for Mentees and are due no later than June 1, 2014.
This unique Program is built on a one-on-one relationship between an experienced, successful woman entrepreneur and a business owner who needs guidance to grow her company or take it in new directions.
This isn’t the usual classroom setting, but a dedicated and intensive process between a Mentor and a Mentee that is focused exclusively on areas in which the Mentee needs advice: marketing, sales, strategy, finances, operations, managing growth or public speaking. Mentors include business experts with clients in the Fortune 500, business owners with revenues of $1 million and up, and authors of books on building a successful business.
Qualified Mentees must:
Qualified Mentees must:
* Own their own business
* Be in business full-time for at least two years
NAWBO-NYC is New York’s premier association for women business owners.
* Be in business full-time for at least two years
NAWBO-NYC is New York’s premier association for women business owners.
Monday, April 14, 2014
MCC Platinum Partner Wells Fargo Reveals 2013 Contributions of Over $11 Million in New York State
New York, N.Y., April 2, 2014– Wells Fargo announced today that its contributions to New York State non-profits totaled $11.1 million in 2013, an increase from the $10.6 million awarded in 2012. There were 843 grants awarded to support non-profits involved in such areas as community development, education, health and human services, arts and culture and environmental initiatives. Additionally, Wells Fargo team members contributed 19,200 volunteer hours to help their neighborhoods and communities succeed.
“Wells Fargo’s philanthropy is about investing in the future of the communities where our team members and customers live and work," said Joe Kirk, Wells Fargo’s New York and Connecticut regional president. "We value what is best for our customers and their communities and we take pride in offering local solutions to the unique needs of New York State.”
A sampling of the state’s organizations that received grant(s) from Wells Fargo includes City Harvest, Inc.; Hispanic Federation; Neighborhood Housing Center of New York City, Inc.; God's Love We Deliver; Gay Men’s Health Crisis and Working in Support of Education.
“These local nonprofits offer a plethora of programs and services which enrich the lives of families and individuals and we are honored to provide resources which strengthen communities,” said Kirk.
“Wells Fargo’s philanthropy is about investing in the future of the communities where our team members and customers live and work," said Joe Kirk, Wells Fargo’s New York and Connecticut regional president. "We value what is best for our customers and their communities and we take pride in offering local solutions to the unique needs of New York State.”
A sampling of the state’s organizations that received grant(s) from Wells Fargo includes City Harvest, Inc.; Hispanic Federation; Neighborhood Housing Center of New York City, Inc.; God's Love We Deliver; Gay Men’s Health Crisis and Working in Support of Education.
“These local nonprofits offer a plethora of programs and services which enrich the lives of families and individuals and we are honored to provide resources which strengthen communities,” said Kirk.
Friday, April 11, 2014
How do you define marketing?
Marketing is one of those things that’s difficult to define. It doesn't seem to have a definition everyone will agree to, at least according to most popular dictionaries.
For example, one dictionary defined marketing as the act or process of selling or purchasing in a market, the process or technique of promoting, selling, and distributing a product or service.
Or how about this one: Marketing is an aggregate of functions involved in moving goods from producer to consumer.
Here’s one more: The total of activities involved in the transfer of goods from the producer or seller to the consumer or buyer, including advertising, shipping, storing, and selling.
That’s the way dictionaries explain it. And I suppose they’re okay. But when you walk up to people on the street and ask them to define marketing, you get very different definitions. Marketing is selling. Marketing is advertising. Marketing is promoting a product or service.
You can (or perhaps can’t) appreciate the dilemma I faced when I was writing How to Close More Business in Less Time. That’s why I created my own definition. But I didn’t define marketing, per se, but something I called good marketing as any activity that speeds, shortens, streamlines, or favorably influences the outcome of their sales process.
That definition worked and continues to work for me because I believe it is critically important for businesses to integrate marketing with the sales process, and because I believe the fundamental role of marketing is to directly support the sales process.
But I am curious and I wonder if it would be possible to come up with a definition we’d all agree to.
So I’ll ask again, how you define marketing?
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Editorial by Greg David, Columnist/Blogger for Crain's New York on Mayor De Blasio’s First 100 Days
Subject: Your speech on on your first 100 days
Headline: Don’t ignore us—again
Someone needs to send the mayor a memo like the one I began above.
A few weeks ago, a tax lawyer I know responded immediately to one of my posts on the ups and downs of our new mayor with a simple statement. "All my clients hate him," he wrote. There was a list of specific grievances, but the most important message is that they felt he didn’t care about them or their problems or the role they play in making New York prosperous.
Consider what happened last week, when his own deputy mayor for economic development unveiled a major new report on the tech industry in New York. Mr. de Blasio crashed the event—tieless to supposedly fit in with the tech theme—and then talked about his victory in winning pre-K. That shows a lot of interest in the concerns of tech people.
A few weeks earlier, a new roller coaster was commissioned at Coney Island. Michael Bloomberg would have been there to talk about how important tourism is to the city and how he would make sure that industry boosted the fortunes of that part of Brooklyn. In this administration, not even a deputy mayor showed up. It was an event worth only the presence of the president of the city's Economic Development Corp.
On a more substantive matter, could Mayor de Blasio have shown less interest in the concerns of business people—primarily those running small companies—as he pushed through and basked in the triumph of the broader, toughened sick-leave bill?
I know the mayor and his aides are in contact with the business power brokers, but that is not enough. It is time for him to acknowledge the people who run the businesses that make the city work and to make it clear he understands that a thriving economy is high on his priority list.
Thursday would be a good time to start.
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Greg David
Director/Business Reporting Program/CUNY J School
Columnist/Blogger for Crain's New York
Headline: Don’t ignore us—again
Someone needs to send the mayor a memo like the one I began above.
A few weeks ago, a tax lawyer I know responded immediately to one of my posts on the ups and downs of our new mayor with a simple statement. "All my clients hate him," he wrote. There was a list of specific grievances, but the most important message is that they felt he didn’t care about them or their problems or the role they play in making New York prosperous.
Consider what happened last week, when his own deputy mayor for economic development unveiled a major new report on the tech industry in New York. Mr. de Blasio crashed the event—tieless to supposedly fit in with the tech theme—and then talked about his victory in winning pre-K. That shows a lot of interest in the concerns of tech people.
A few weeks earlier, a new roller coaster was commissioned at Coney Island. Michael Bloomberg would have been there to talk about how important tourism is to the city and how he would make sure that industry boosted the fortunes of that part of Brooklyn. In this administration, not even a deputy mayor showed up. It was an event worth only the presence of the president of the city's Economic Development Corp.
On a more substantive matter, could Mayor de Blasio have shown less interest in the concerns of business people—primarily those running small companies—as he pushed through and basked in the triumph of the broader, toughened sick-leave bill?
I know the mayor and his aides are in contact with the business power brokers, but that is not enough. It is time for him to acknowledge the people who run the businesses that make the city work and to make it clear he understands that a thriving economy is high on his priority list.
Thursday would be a good time to start.
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Greg David
Director/Business Reporting Program/CUNY J School
Columnist/Blogger for Crain's New York
Monday, April 7, 2014
Technology means growth: Lessons from SMEs
4 Oct 2013 11:00 PM
The following post is from Orlando Ayala, chairman of emerging markets at Microsoft.
It is widely known that small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in the vitality of local economies around the globe. I was recently reminded just how important SMEs are as growth engines of our economies.
Microsoft commissioned The Boston Consulting Group to conduct an independent study, which surveyed more than 4,000 SMEs in five of the world's largest and most diverse economies: the United States, Germany, China, India and Brazil. The objectivewas to look at the economic impact of IT on small businesses today.
The study found that tech-savvy SMEs outperformed SMEs using little technology in innovation, job growth and increased revenues over the last three years. SME leaders using technology have grown their businesses and reduced costs, and one important factor seems to be increased worker productivity. According to BCG, if 15 percent of those SMEs that use little technology and 30 percent of SMEs who use moderate amounts of technology adopted the latest IT tools, they could boost their combined revenues by $770 billion and create more than 6 million new jobs in just those five markets combined. Who can afford to leave $770 billion on the table?
What I found particularly interesting is that leaders in emerging markets are even quicker than developed market counterparts to embrace new tools. More than 80 percent of tech leaders in emerging markets use cloud services, communication tools and enterprise resource planning software, compared to only 60 percent of tech leaders in developed markets. And technology leader firms with female founders have achieved average revenues that in most cases match or surpass those of male-founded companies.
Continue Reading this article here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2013/10/04/technology-means-growth-lessons-from-smes.aspx
Continue Reading this article here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2013/10/04/technology-means-growth-lessons-from-smes.aspx
Friday, April 4, 2014
Agree or disagree: Is NYC a tech hub?
NYC has certainly seen growth in the tech sector but there are varying opinions about how big a tech center we are. Take a look and let us know your thoughts!
New York Is Really Desperate to Pretend It’s a Huge Tech Hub
By Kevin Roose @ New York Magazine
Counting tech workers in New York City must be a fascinating activity, because boy, do people keep doing it. In the last few years alone, at least a half-dozen groups have tried to categorize and count the various app-builders and screen-starers in the city's tech industry, and they've come up with numbers all over the map. The Center for an Urban Future pegged the number at 52,900, or roughly a Yankee Stadium full of tech geeks. The Bloomberg Tech Summit put it at about five Yankee Stadiums – 262,000 jobs.
But a new report released yesterday tops them all in terms of boosterish enthusiasm. Like many of the reports that came before it, this one is filled with exaggerations, mathematical sleights of hand, and charts that make me think that while New York's tech industry might be doing pretty well, its statistics industry has some catching up to do.
Continue reading here: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/04/nyc-desperate-to-pretend-its-a-huge-tech-hub.html?mid=facebook_nymag
MCC Thanks March's Renewing Members
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Website
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Duane Reade
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Daniel Gralton
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Infusionsoft
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Ramon Ray
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Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP
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Kuldeepak Acharya
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TD Bank
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Josephine Longo
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National Corporate Theatre Fund
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Bruce Whitacre
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USL Technology
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Fatou Jabbie
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Lincoln Square Business Improvement District
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Monica Blum
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Middle East Airlines
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Adib Kassis
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Ridgewood Savings Bank
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Devi Narain
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Technology & Marketing Ventures Inc
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June Klein
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Worldview Entertainment Holdings
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Christopher Woodrow
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Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP
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Ralph Siciliano
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Baruch College/CUNY, Weissman Center for Int'l Bus
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Terrence Martell
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Hodgson Russ LLP
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Cathy Fleming
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Nicholas & Lence Communications
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George Lence
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John F Craven CPA LLC
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John Craven
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Happy Happy Auto Repair
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David Tran
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Manhattan Dentist
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David Binder
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FCW Hospitality and Private Residence Consulting
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Fiona Cameron-Williams
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AMINYC
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Peter Acken
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Carlos M. Jusino-Berrios M.D.
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Carlos Jusino-Berrios
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Robert P. Russo, C.P.A. PC
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Robert Russo
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Strategies for Growth
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Gil Effron
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The Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce, Inc.
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Renee Lundholm
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Point Vantage Employee Benefits
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Anthony Carro
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Thursday, April 3, 2014
MCC Welcome March's New Members!
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Name
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Website
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Amalgamated Bank
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Rich Warner
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HEARTLAND PAYMENT
SYSTEMS
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LISA ROMAIN
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Academic Internship
Council
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Anna Krishtal
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Voice Wealth
Management
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Russell Rivera
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Morgan Stanley
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Maura Sayers
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SecReliant LLC
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Monica Pearson
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Statue Cruises
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Rafael Abreu
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Zipcar
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Joanna Reynolds
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Sutton Court Hotel
Residences
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Zenaida Cruz
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Smiles For All, LLC
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Henry Levin
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PGA TOUR
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Susan Hamlin
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Livingston
International
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Cliff Simon
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CWC Bookkeeping LLC
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Charles Morehead Jr
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Dr. Silvia Birklein
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Dr Silvia Birklein
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Total Alignment
Wealth Advisors
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Robert Hayden
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Deloitte
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Anita-Mai Goulding
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Tiger Shulmann's
Kickboxing/Mixed Martial Arts
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Takira Tela
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Powerlinx Inc
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Mariele Marki
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Allied Financial
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Isy Benhamroun
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eLaunch Technologies,
Inc.
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Judy Roman
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Dive Mktg
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Angela Hadl
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Maracaibo Media
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Lynn Munroe
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Justin Group Inc.
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Laura Giustiniani
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High End Hiring
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Karen Eckes
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Doc Watson
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John Hatas
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Hi-Life Restaurant
& Lounge
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Earl Geer
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Sable's Smoked Fish
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Dan Sze
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Jeffrey Stew Salon
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Jeff Stew
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Lusardi's
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Imer Diekaj
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Alaturka Restaurant
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Raymond Maya
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Asia Cleaners
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Seung Park
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Beach Cafe
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Dave Goodside
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SailTime New York
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Keith Cooper
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XL CLEANING COMPANY
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Alphonso Jones
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prospect mortgage llc
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stevevn goldenberg
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Ignite
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Colin Murphy
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Noreen Sumpter
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Noreen Sumpter
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Church of St.
Ignatuis Loyola
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Caroline Fernandes
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Fundera
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Andres Moran
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Churchill Credit
Solutions
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Brian Robinson
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Green Festival Inc
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Suzanne Hageman
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Signarama
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sanjay lalwani
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Gary L. Cutler, P.C.
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Gary Cutler
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Jonathan Barry
Associates, Inc.
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David L. Hantman
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ETON Instititue
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Anna Soria
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Flexcel Network LLC
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Sophie Wade
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KRStrategy USA LLC
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Antony Wood
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NYC Bodyworks
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Susan Shockett
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ELIZABETH PIZZULLI of
THE CORCORAN GROUP
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Elizabeth Pizzulli
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DSX3 Media, Corp
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Andrew Jonah
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Law Offices of Jason
E. Korta
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Jason Korta
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EWS
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Kyle Riggle
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WordPoint
Communications
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Ted Rabinowitz
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Attention NYC Business Owners!
NEW
CITY LAW!
YOUR
BUSINESS MUST COMPLY!
Effective
April 1st
Paid
Sick Leave Law
*Businesses with fewer than 5 employees
must give each employee 5 UNPAID sick days per year. Employees earn one hour of “sick time” for
every 30 hours they work. The maximum
number of sick days they can earn per year is 5 days or 40 hours.
* Businesses with more than 5 employees must
give each employee 5 PAID sick days per year at their normal hourly rate. Employees earn one hour of “sick time” for
every 30 hours they work. The maximum
number of sick days they can earn per year is 5 days or 40 hours.
NOTE;
IF YOU ALREADY OFFER EMPLOYEES VACATION TIME OR PAID TIME OFF FOR AT LEAST 5
DAYS IN A CALENDAR YEAR, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO OFFER ADDITIONAL LEAVE.
IMPORTANT!
EVERY BUSINESS OWNER MUST GIVE EACH EMPLOYEE THE ATTACHED DOCUMENT TO
READ AND SIGN, NOTING THAT THEY HAVE READ IT AND PUT IT IN THEIR EMPLOYEE
FILE. IN ADDITION, YOU MUST HAVE A
SYSTEM IN PLACE TO CALCULATE EARNED SICK TIME.
THE NEW YORK CITY DEPT. OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS WILL BE OVERSEEING THIS LAW.
For
all information, questions, other exemptions, etc. please visit:
or Call 311 (212-NEW-YORK outside NYC)
If you need the form in other languages, please contact the DCA
using contact info above
And please pass on the info on to any business owner you know so they are aware of this new law.
And please pass on the info on to any business owner you know so they are aware of this new law.
Thank you!
Attached is the Notice of Employee Rights Form
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7aU5Ne9SKqSM1NXNjQ2NE1Nckk/edit?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7aU5Ne9SKqSM1NXNjQ2NE1Nckk/edit?usp=sharing
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