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Almanac
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Business New Haven
9/11/1995
By: BNH
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Personnel Add: The Connecticut Business & Industry Association (CBIA) has developed a manual to help companies keep abreast with ever-evolving personnel policies that most must address. Personnel Policies That Work is a 323-page tome offering three to four examples of how real Connecticut companies cope with personnel matters in each of 65 subject areas, including absenteeism, sexual harassment, dress codes, family and medical leave, promotions, layoffs and recalls, even e-mail security. Among companies that provided examples of their policies are Heublein Inc., Pratt & Whitney, Phoenix Home Life Mutual Insurance Co. and Reflexite Corp. “Companies can use these examples to write their own policies, tailoring them to their own operations,” explains Robert D. Noonan, vice president and counsel to CBIA's Management Services Division. “It saves a lot of time and money researching personnel policies.” Money business-owners won't save is the $120 cost ($100 for CBIA members) of the manual, which
comes with a diskette containing the
entire manual in Microsoft
Word 6.0.
Adventures in Shrinking Government: Connecticut's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for June was 5.1 percent, according to the state's labor department. While that's essentially unchanged from May, it's noteworthy to look at where jobs were gained and lost. The largest job changes were in government employment, which added 3,600 jobs between May and June. Additionally, construction and mining added 600 jobs, while finance, insurance and real estate were up 300. Negative changes came in wholesale and retail trade, which lost 1,300 jobs, as well as 400 in manufacturing and 200 in transportation, communications and utilities. The Bridgeport labor market area had the state's highest unemployment rate, at 6.3 percent, which Danbury's had the lowest (3.8 percent). The New Haven and Waterbury labor markets had unemployment rates of 5.3 and 5.9 percent, respectively.
Brokering a Few Transactions of Their Own: On July 24, the New Haven-based Beazley Co., Realtors purchased the assets of Connecticut Realty of Berlin. The office will serve Berlin, Kensington, Newington and New Britain. Beazley already has branches in Middletown, West Hartford and Windsor, and is actively seeking an increased presence in greater Hartford. Shortly thereafter, Beazley also acquired the assets of Janet Sachs Realty of Killingworth. The office, located at 177 Route 81, will serve Killingworth, Clinton, Haddam and Deep River. The acquisitions bring to 27 the number of Beazley offices statewide. Earlier this year, the Relocation Information Service, which publishes National Relocation & Real Estate magazine, ranked Beazley 99th out of 250 leading real estate brokerage firms in the U.S.
Having a Gas: Connecticut Technologies Inc. has acquired the Gas Meter Prover product line from Schlumberger Industries of New York. The products are used by gas-meter manufacturers and gas utilities to calibrate and certify the accuracy of residential and commercial gas meters. Connecticut Technologies' purchase includes three generations of Gas Meter
Provers and related products. The Wallingford firm has provided new product development, engineering and manufacturing services to industrial equipment manufacturers since 1983.
Kiss Me - I'm Irish: The state's Department of Economic Development will sponsor a trade mission to Ireland next month for companies seeking inroads into the auld sod. The trade mission, scheduled for October 14-20, will include visits to Dublin and Belfast and feature seminars on the Irish business environment, law, import regulations and banking. According to organizers, Ireland offers the business advantages of a growing economy, a young and educated workforce and friendly governmental business policies. The island, of course, is heavily dependent upon imports to sustain both the commercial and consumer sectors of its economy.
Kiss Me - I'm Accredited: The American Bar Association has
granted full accreditation to the Quinnipiac College School of Law. The former Bridgeport School of Law became part of Quinnipiac in March 1992, and received provisional accreditation in June of that year. Since that time a new $20 million, 130,000-square-foot law center has been erected on the Hamden campus; the Quinnipiac College School of Law Center will be dedicated on October 12.
Gigs: The Milford-based Barter Network Inc. (BNI) has formed a new division to concentrate on travel services. The division will be headed by Lorene Pitta, formerly with Thomas Cooke/American Express Travel. BNI is one of the largest barter firms in the Northeast, with a network of more than 4,000 clients and offices in Hartford and on Cape Cod....Pite Plus Marketing has been awarded a consulting contract to produce marketing plans, promotions, public relations and market research for the Hartford-based Community Health Services, a primary care facility....Last month saw the
opening of the unusually named ...Have You Any Wool? on Route 10 in Cheshire. It is said to be the first knitting school and yarn shop in New Haven County to offer instruction, products and services to machine- and hand-knitters.
Hit 'em Where It Hurts Dept.: State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal last month announced that a Middletown medical waste disposal firm had agreed to pay a nearly $1 million penalty and surrender all its operating permits to settle allegations of excessive emissions from the company's incinerator, as well as improper wastewater discharges. As a result, Safe Way Disposal Systems Inc. has permanently shut down its biomedical waste operation at 80 Industrial Park Road and will pay the state $992,000. A lawsuit filed by the state at the time of the agreement charged Safe Way and its president, Martin J. Smith, with exceeding the amount of biomed waste processed at the facility a whopping 3,368 times.
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