Legal Primer 1.0 for Circulation Management
On Thursday, June 29, 2017, ONMA will sponsor a training program titled “Super Heroes of Home Delivery (and More)” from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Columbia Dispatch, located at 5300 Crosswind Drive, Columbus, OH 43228. As part of that program, from 9:00 a.m. until noon, Michael Zinser will present a session titled “Legal Primer 1.0 for Circulation Management.” Informed by his extensive background handling independent contractor and labor relations issues particular to news
MFM Media Finance Focus 2017
On Monday, May 22, 2017, Michael Zinser spoke at Media Financial Management’s Media Finance Focus conference in Orlando, Florida. Newspaper, broadcast, and cable finance executives from around the country attended the meeting. During his session, Michael updated attendees on the Department of Labor’s Overtime Rule and the status of the litigation that has enjoined the Rule on a nationwide basis. Since the November 22, 2016 injunction, the Department of Labor has pushed back i
NYSCMA Circulation Manager Training
On Friday, May 19, Michael Zinser presented a daylong training session, sponsored by NYSCMA, to more than 40 Circulation Executives from newspapers across the State of New York. The meeting, located at the Albany Times Union’s Hearst Media Center, began with an entertaining mock trial for an independent contractor whose contract was terminated when he tried to unionize the other newspaper carriers. The sessions following the mock trial focused on several important independent
Alex Acosta Confirmed as 27th U.S. Secretary of Labor
On April 27, 2017, by a 60 to 38 vote, the U.S. Senate confirmed Alex Acosta as the nation’s 27th Secretary of Labor. He was then sworn in by Vice President Mike Pence on April 28, 2017. Acosta is highly qualified for this position, having served on the National Labor Relations Board and worked as an Assistant Attorney General and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. Now that that Acosta has been confirmed, he will first determine whether the U.S. Department of
