ALBANY—Michelle Naomi Barson joins The Business Council membership team as the manager of membership recruitment and retention. In this role she will foster relationships with small and mid-sized companies across the state to enhance and expand membership in all sectors.
“We are excited to have someone with Michelle's talents and enthusiasm join our membership team,” said Heather Briccetti, president and CEO of The Business Council of NYS, Inc
ALBANY, N.Y.—Two bills before the State Legislature could rollback cost savings created in the 2007 Workers' Compensation reforms.
S.3749-C (Robach)/A.5183 (Simotas) would allow an injured employee to utilize any pharmacy that matched the state's "published prices," regardless of whether such pharmacy was in an employer's network and offered "volume discounts" often significantly below "published prices"
ALBANY—The Business Council of New York State, Inc. has launched MADEinNY.org, a website that promotes New York businesses and their products and services. The Made in New York website was created to highlight Business Council members and the many diverse products and services they make and provide
ALBANY—The Business Council of New York State Inc. Board of Directors at their May Board meeting elected two new directors. Alphonso O'Neil-White, president and CEO of HealthNow New York Inc., and G. Thomas Tranter, president of Corning Enterprises and director of government affairs at Corning Inc
ALBANY—Canadians are spending far more on goods in the U.S. than federal data suggest, raising the stakes for domestic retailers trying to find ways to draw customers back into their stores.
As much as 8 to 10 percent of consumer spending on a raft of products is flowing to retailers outside the border, according to estimates in a report being released today by BMO Nesbitt Burns
ALBANY New York state's unemployment rate was unchanged in April from March at 8.5 percent but the state has won back all the private sector jobs lost during the recession, the state Department of Labor said on Thursday.
New York's jobless rate is up from 8 percent in April 2011 and is above the national rate for April of 8
ALBANY— "After the passage of Tier VI pension reform, a fiscally responsible budget and other business-friendly initiatives, the Assembly has taken a step in the wrong direction. Raising the minimum wage to $8.50 per hour would cost an extra $2,900 per full-time employee in 2013. It's unconscionable to place this burden on small-business owners, who are already struggling under state-imposed mandates
ALBANY—With New Yorkers preparing to vote on school budget propositions next Tuesday, the Empire Center today released the latest data for its Internet-based tool — BenchmarkingNY's Property Taxes by Location — allowing taxpayers to compute and compare total school district, municipal and county tax burdens in thousands of communities across the state
ALBANY (05/10/2012) — The Public Policy Institute (PPI), the research arm of The Business Council of New York State, today released an in-depth study on the challenges in attracting and retaining private-sector jobs and companies in New York's lucrative bioscience sector.
Based on interviews with 30 industry experts as well as existing research, Cultivating the Next Generation of Discoveries and Development in New York Bioscience explores the opportunities and barriers facing companies in various stages of development and offers three public policy recommendations to foster public-private partnerships and make New York more competitive with other states:
Create a Governor's Council to spearhead development and marketing of the state's bioscience industry
Albany N.Y. — Increasing the state's minimum wage is the wrong approach for promoting the economic well-being of New Yorkers. The costs — recently estimated at up to $1 billion per year — will fall most heavily on small businesses. At a time when most business income is flat, state-imposed costs, such as a higher minimum wage, will result in increased prices, less investment and fewer job opportunities for New Yorkers