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Newspaper recognizes tech company for excellent workplace

MBJ Staff — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:39:29 +0000

JACKSON — Bomgar has been named one of the top companies to work for in Atlanta by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In the small business category of the AJC’s Top 100 Workplaces for 2013, Bomgar was ranked as the No. 4 company to work for in Atlanta. Any Atlanta company with more than 50 employees is [...]

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Law firm earns highest ranking in poll of best workplaces

MBJ Staff — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:16:50 +0000

JACKSON — Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC has earned its highest ranking yet on Fortune’s 16th annual “100 Best Companies to Work For” list, coming in at 45th in its fourth consecutive year to be named to the listing. “Each year, we are incredibly honored to be recognized among such a select group [...]

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Employee wellness program partners with UMMC

MBJ Staff — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:57:37 +0000

RIDGELAND — The employee health program WellnessPlus has formed a partnership with the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC). UMMC will develop and review medical and health-related information that will be available online to the employees of WellnessPlus client companies. Bill Ray, WellnessPlus CEO, said, “UMMC physicians will serve as a medical advisory board to [...]

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Woman accused of posing as OSHA trainer; bilked fisherman for $200K+

Associated Press — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:29:46 +0000

WIGGINS — A Mississippi woman is accused of posing as a federal worker to make nearly $216,000 giving fraudulent training classes to fishermen who hoped to get jobs cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010. A 22-count federal indictment unsealed yesterday alleges that Connie M. Knight, 46, used phony credentials, diplomas and [...]

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OSHA fines Omega for violations found after worker’s death

Associated Press — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:21:25 +0000

MOSS POINT — A federal safety agency has proposed fines of $79,200 for Omega Protein Inc. for 25 safety and health violations found after the death of a worker who got caught in a rotating screw conveyor. The Sun Herald reports the Occupational Safety and Health Administration released its findings yesterday from an inspection in [...]

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Business owner’s teenage son dies in workplace accident

Associated Press — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:46:07 +0000

LUCEDALE — George County sheriff’s deputies say a 15-year-old died in a workplace accident in Lucedale. The Sun Herald reports Thomas Patrick Harlan Jr. died after he was struck on the head by a pole at Tri-State Pole and Piling. The business is a family owned company that manufactures poles used by power companies. It [...]

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Ice Industries cited by OSHA for safety violations

MBJ Staff — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:01:44 +0000

GRENADA — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Grenada Stamping and Assembly Inc., doing business as Ice Industries Grenada, for 26 safety violations carrying proposed fines of $113,400. In April, OSHA officials opened an inspection at the facility under the agency’s national emphasis program on amputations after learning of [...]

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Baker Donelson ranks among top 10 law firms

MBJ Staff — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:51:48 +0000

JACKSON — Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, has been ranked among the top 10 in the 2012 edition of Vault Inc.’s “Best Law Firms to Work For.” This national ranking is based on feedback from thousands of law firm associates across the country who were asked to rate their law firms on a [...]

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Baker Donelson recognized for outstanding workplace

Wally Northway — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:47:03 +0000

JACKSON — Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC has been ranked among the top law firms in the country in the 2010 edition of American Lawyer’s Associates Survey. This annual listing ranks law firms as workplaces based on feedback from mid-level associates-attorneys in their third, fourth or fifth years of law practice. Of the [...]

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Bosses differ on ‘Office Madness’ in March

Clay Chandler — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:01:03 +0000

If the credit markets don’t kill the economy, March Madness might. The NCAA Basketball Tournament started last Thursday, an annual event that ushers in the beginning of spring and the demise of laser-focused productivity at businesses across the U.S. Break rooms turn into betting parlors, with employees examining their brackets, plunging into office pools [...]

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