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Where next for the Private Rented Sector?
At the recent CLT Conference I attended, there was an excellent talk by Professor Martin Partington OBE (former Law Commissioner) on possible future developments in the Private Rented Sector (PRS)...

Public v. Private Sector Employment
Kenneth McDonnell (EBRI) has just posted on SSRN an interesting study comparing the compensation of public-sector and private-sector employees...

It's all Central Planning Now (and the Private Sector Wants it that way)
It is hard not to notice that we have entered a period of enormous government spending and investment. Here and there some non-Keynesians speak up, but for the most part most citizens and academics think there should be some bailouts,...

U.S. private sector: biggest job drop in 5 years.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. private employment fell unexpectedly for the first time in nearly five years in February, according to a private report on Wednesday that dealt another blow to an economy teetering on the brink of recession...

There's A Public/Private Sector Distinction For a Reason
Two of my favorite bloggers ended up at the same place on a topic of interest over the past week, although from different directions and apparently unwittingly...

On surveillance, private sector to be protected from suits
It appears that the long and politically charged debate over renewed Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authority is finally being settled in Congress, with the private sector protected from litigation orchestrated by a coalition of privacy absolutists, angry White House...

Did I harass someone?
Oh, yes. This can be taken in as so many things, especially since you had testif...

My supervisor told me the morning of March 17th she would terminate me in two weeks on March 31, 2006, because I sent her a training request and carbon copied all persons required to sign the training request form. She s
Depending on the state you live in, you are fully entitled to be fired for any r...

My children's school is falsely charging me with truancy. The local district justice works for the school in the most blatently open way. And his wife works for the district, too! They have violated private health record
I am no lawer by any means, so I would love for someone to verify what I have to...

Can I sue a privately owned bar for being attacked by the bouncer that caused injuries that are requiring me to have surgery?
If you did not provoke the attack, you can sue the club the bouncer worked for. ...

I live on 10 acres in a "residental" area of homes. Even though we are not zoned commercial my next door neighbor obtained a variance from the county and is running a business. The traffic is right next to my
The time to protest was when the variance was being deliberated by the County. Y...