Nice perks if you can get them. A SEC filing from Bank of America reveals the goodies that come with being a banking exec. "Homeowners who can't relocate because they're stuck with mortgage payments on a home they can't sell would lust after even a pale imitation of the $2.6 million relocation deal ...

I’ve just explored two interesting lists. The first is a list of layoffs in 2008. The second is a list of CEO compensation in 2007. The two lists are related because for many of the companies on the first list which laid off employees in 2008, the second list details the companies’ CEO c...

Meet the "Royal Caribbean Champions," a group of fifty prolific posters to popular online communities that Royal Caribbean rewards with special access and free cruises in exchange for their frequent and positive commentary. The Champions were outed by their creators, the Customer Insight Group, whic...

Just as I was thinking it was about time to publish a column on the topic of "leverage" at law firms (roughly speaking, the associate to partner ratio, although there's more than one way to calculate something that people will call "leverage"), here comes a slew of pieces on the ...

So who says all CEO’s are bums? If you listen to those in the Obama administration you would think that being a CEO is worse than being a lawyer. Well there is an Israeli CEO, Eli Yones of Mizrahi Tefahot Bank, who may change the president’s mind. You see Mizrahi Tefahot Bank is actually...

Filed under: Airlines, Airports, News Here is (what should be) a great piece of news from the aviation world - domestic US carriers are losing fewer of our bags. A staggering 1.3 million bags were not lost when compared to statistics from the previous year. Normally, airlines would have a good reaso...

If I get laid off, will I be compensated for my outstanding vacation time? I work for a corporation based in Charlotte that has regional offices. For the last week I've taken on another office's work and next week I'll absorb another office. They've let the administrative people from those offices g...

Hourly bonus programs- anyone have experience / advice? I have been tasked with creating / implementing an attendance bonus for my company's production workers. These are hourly employees, not salaried. The bonus would pay out as an increase in their hourly rate of pay as a reward for perfect attend...

(Image: Picasaweb user Chris) Microsoft employees have been either given too much or too little money in their severance checks–and Microsoft wants the difference back. From TechCrunch: Microsoft has inadvertently overpaid severance to some of its recently laid off employees, and is now asking...

When non-lawyers ask what's happening in the world of law these days (i.e., what ATL is covering), our first response is usually one word: layoffs. It's been a dominant theme in our coverage since the fall. —Above The Law (today) While I might nominate that quote for Understatement Of The Seas...