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Beginning Jan.1 of next year, the New York Paid Family Leave Benefits Law will require New York employers to provide their employees with paid and job-protected time off for certain qualifying family leave events. The New York Workers’ Compensation Board ...

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Despite what many employers say about millennials being entitled, impatient and lacking a work ethic, I adore and admire millennials—as people, children, friends, relatives, community members, business partners, coworkers and especially team members. In my experience at Dixon Schwabl, the ...

Amanda Sparrin vividly remembers how excited her son, Bryson, was when she signed him up to play Challenger Little League Baseball in Webster in the spring of 2010. The charismatic five-year-old, known to everyone he met simply as “B,’’ couldn’t ...

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Question: Which city has the largest concentration of professional musicians in the nation? If you guessed Nashville, you’d be right. But Rochester’s in second place. Among all metro areas with at least half a million employed, Rochester leads San Francisco ...

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I have mentioned many times that one of the chief complaints I hear from Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce members is that in order for them to stay and grow here, they need to have an available and qualified workforce to ...

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Question: Which city has the largest concentration of professional musicians in the nation? If you guessed Nashville, you’d be right. But Rochester’s in second place. Among all metro areas with at least half a million employed, Rochester leads San Francisco ...

I have mentioned many times that one of the chief complaints I hear from Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce members is that in order for them to stay and grow here, they need to have an available and qualified workforce to ...

Gary Passamonte is like a pesky hitter who keeps fouling off pitches in hopes of eventually getting one he can smack for the game-winning hit. In this metaphor, his prolonged at-bat is a cause he’s pursued for nearly three decades. ...

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The short-term demands of running a business often distract business owners from the long-term importance of developing a comprehensive transition plan. This includes proper planning for protecting and preserving the future of their business. For business owners, the goal of ...

Tagged with: Corporate Finance James Barger

“I started a new job recently that I’m very excited about, and I am working hard at it. I will admit that I didn’t leave my last employer on the best of terms. But recently, I was horrified to find ...

Apple of your pie This is going to sound pretty un-American. I’m good with motherhood, but I don’t like apple pie. Apples, applesauce and variety of apple drinks, but apple pie, meh. Actually, I don’t like pie—pumpkin to cherry to ...

Though born around the time Ryan Blackwell was taking his final shots and grabbing his final rebounds for Syracuse University, they’re well aware that their coach was once an Orange hoops star. The players on the Liverpool High School varsity ...

New York is aggressively using a new driver’s license suspension program to try to collect tax debts. The law has been effective in collecting New York tax debts from people who can pay, with over $400 million collected since the ...

Each summer, I make a pilgrimage to two of my favorite museums. You’re probably familiar with the one in Cooperstown, dedicated to baseball history. But unless you’re from my hometown of Rome (New York, not Italy), you’ve probably never heard ...

Much has changed in the 30 years since the first Rochester Business Journal weekly issue appeared on Oct. 5, 1987—both for the publication and the community it covers. These three decades have seen Eastman Kodak Co., Xerox Corp.  and Bausch ...