Stanford prevails in unfair labor case

An administrative law judge has found that persons claiming to represent SEIU Local 715 engaged in unfair labor practices in dealings with Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford said Friday.
Information that the hospitals had requested to determine if Local 715 still was in existence and representing employees at […]

Hawaii

Hawaii is among the top 10 states where taxpayers bear the heaviest state-local tax burdens, according to a recent study by The Tax Foundation.
Hawaii ranked fifth, with residents paying 10.6 percent of their income in taxes.
The Tax Foundation ranks states based on state and local tax collections, including out-of-state tax […]

DiNapoli: State pension fund up 2.56% in 2007-08

The state's pension fund posted a positive return of 2.56 percent for the 2007-2008 fiscal year, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli announced today.
But the comptroller wants to see a change in state law that puts limits on certain investments. DiNapoli said under the state's legal list system, investments in assets classified as alternative, […]

ProService Hawaii names chief financial officer

Honolulu employment services firm ProService Hawaii has named Glenn Roberts its new chief financial officer.
Roberts, who is a certified management accountant, previously was vice president of finance at Markettools, a San Francisco market research and technology company.
Before that, he was a director in the chief financial officer advisory services division […]

Some Beijing Olympics tickets may be phony

Attorney General Hardy Myers is warning Oregon consumers of bogus Internet Web sites marketing tickets for the upcoming Beijing Olympics.
"We have received numerous complaints of consumers paying thousands of dollars for tickets they’ve never received," Myers said. "In the final lead up to the start of the Olympics next month, phony ticket […]