How to Be Happy at Work
Even in this "doing-more-with-less" pattern of organizational operations, you can be happy at work. Out of financial necessity, most people have to work; there is no choice. However, you do have a choice about the specific job, industry and organization you seek for your place of employment.

A Successful Recipe for Accountability in Your Small Business
Accountability is a buzzword in the business world right now. Unfortunately, most of us have negative understanding of the word. We often use the word as if it means blame and punishment. Therefore, we attempt to avoid it. The truth is that accountability is unavoidable. In the workplace, intrinsically everyone is accountable to someone. We are accountable to our peers, managers, customers and ownership. We are also accountable to our industry.

California\'s Ban on Same-Sex Marriage Held Unconstitutional
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that California’s ban on same-sex marriage (“Proposition 8”) is unconstitutional because it denies same-sex couples the right to due process and equal protection of the laws as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

FLSA is Amended to Provide Nursing Mothers with Reasonable Breaks in Private Space
A new amendment to Section 7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") requires employers to provide "reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for her nursing child for 1 year after the child\'s birth." The law went into effect on March 23, 2010, with the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("PPACA"). The amendment addresses three major areas that will require attention and in some cases, action, by employers: time, privacy and compensation.

IRS Issues FBAR Filing Relief, But Certain Filing Obligations Remain
The IRS has recently issued several pieces of guidance related to the filing of the Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts, IRS Form TD F 90-22.1 (“FBAR”), by pension plan sponsors. While the IRS has relieved some of the filing obligations, most notably the requirement for plans to file for foreign hedge fund investments for 2009 and prior years, certain filing obligations remain.