Product liability insurance is very necessary for all businesses to carry today. There are three types of potential product defects that allow for consumer-backed product liability lawsuits to enter into the court system:
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Most people believe change starts at the top. But when it comes to greening your supply chain, change really starts at the bottom. What's beneath all that change? It starts with your choice of pallets. The one ubiquitous platform that moves nearly everything that moves.
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Most people certainly do not enjoy receiving bills in the mail, especially when such invoices are accompanied by harsh and indifferent sounding legalese that sometimes does not even sound as if it was written by a human being. It is no secret that large banks and corporations earn much of their money via the morally questionable use of hidden terms and fees in the fine print that require reading glasses to see, and many such companies do not conduct themselves by a high code of moral ethics. After all, why be nice when you can be rich?
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It happens in business time after time. The phone rings and a pallet supplier gives you a price that seems too good to be true. You set up a meeting and carefully go over the spec's you require. Wood choice. Moisture content. Nail count and spacing. Stacking requirements. Size and weight specs. All you see are nodding heads. So you decide to give them a try. The first order comes in and everything looks fine, then the next one and maybe even the one after that.
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If you love cigars–if you're a true cigar aficionado–you probably wonder, every now and again, what life is like for the hard-working folks who grow the tobacco for your favorite cigars.
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For all the green rhetoric being tossed around today by the manufacturers of plastic pallets about their sustainability and recyclable nature, the facts are still the facts. Wooden pallets made from the unusable trims of the lumbering process are greener, cleaner and more environmentally friendly by any measure.
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The California State Legislature has declared that advances in the science and technology have led to the development of new devices and techniques for the purpose of eavesdropping upon private communications and that the invasion of privacy resulting from the continual and increase use of such devices and techniques has created a serious threat to the free exercise of personal liberties and cannot be tolerated in a free and civilized society. The legislature intends to protect the right of privacy of the people of the State of California.
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Too many offers of guaranteed income or of projected income can be found online these days. When someone is scouring the internet for job announcements or possibly with the intent of starting a business, the number of business opportunities that pop up is growing quite large. These offers are sometimes not in compliance with business opportunity law specifications. How does one know if that advertisement offering easy income or a product that sells itself is in compliance with the local business opportunity law? A look into state law will provide the answers.
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Privacy International has released a study concerning privacy issues when talking about some of the biggest Internet companies, and it seems Google ranked last. You can find more on the report here and even more details here. But the main idea is that Privacy International has performed the study over a six months period following the privacy practices of some of the Internet's biggest players.
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A Google search for "fair trade jewelry" will bring up numerous companies, many of which sell ethnic jewelry produced in small villages in the developing world. The concept draws the socially responsible shopper, yet the third party labeling organization, Fair Labeling Organization (FLO) - of which Transfair USA is a member - does not currently list jewelry. Apart from that, some large players in the mainstream jewelry industry are beginning to tout concepts such as "fair trade diamonds" and "fair trade gold." So how does one make sense of these jewelry claims, especially as they relate to the $150 Billion mainstream jewelry industry?
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