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Marlborough cannabis testing lab shutters, latest victim to industry struggles
Eric Casey September 12, 2024A Marlborough cannabis testing lab has closed, as a former employee described the current state of the industry as a "house of cards."
Waiting for a lifeline: Social equity cannabis businesses navigate the increasingly difficult industry as they await grants from a $27M fund
Eric Casey Updated: September 16, 2024Social equity cannabis companies say more support needed.
After liquidation announcement, LL Flooring finds buyer, allowing one Central Mass. store to remain open
Eric Casey September 11, 2024The retailer formerly known as Lumber Liquidators has found a buyer for its assets, a move that should allow one of its three Central Massachusetts locations to remain open.
Big Lots, with six Central Mass. locations, plans to close some stores amid bankruptcy
Mica Kanner-Mascolo September 10, 2024Ohio-based Big Lots has filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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Central Mass. LL Flooring locations to close, as company formerly known as Lumber Liquidators is shuttering
Eric Casey September 6, 2024“This is not the outcome that any of us had hoped for,” a letter to customers on LL Flooring’s website reads.
Workers Credit Union hires second executive from CEO’s former Colorado firm
Mica Kanner-Mascolo September 5, 2024Workers Credit Union has named Ellie Fordyce as the Littleton cooperative’s new chief people officer.
Another IPG executive is set to depart this year, as new CEO looks to reverse stock price plummet
Eric Casey September 4, 2024The chief technology officer of Marlborough-based IPG Photonics Corp. is heading to retirement, as the company’s new CEO looks to overcome falling stock prices and global demand issues.
IPG Photonics sells Russian assets for $51M, ending 34-year presence in country where it was founded
Eric Casey August 30, 2024Marlborough-based IPG Photonics Corp., a global laser manufacturing company founded in a Moscow basement laboratory in 1990, has sold its remaining assets in Russia, citing the impact of ongoing sanctions related to the country’s invasion of Ukraine…
Tourism destinations in Worcester, Medway, and North Grafton receive combined $93K from state
Eric Casey August 29, 2024Three attractions in Central Massachusetts have received a combined $93,000 from the state’s Office of Travel and Tourism.
Q&A: Marlborough fire protection firm makes Inc. 5000
Sloane M. Perron Updated: September 2, 2024Platinum Fire was founded in 2010 by Robert Pereria, who built his career in fire protection systems. In the wake of the Great Recession, businesses started to reemerge, and construction became revitalized, opening the door for new structures in…
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Massachusetts whistleblower laws predominantly safeguard public employees from retaliation when they report violations, abuse, or risks to public health and safety. However, private employees have far more restrictions in regards to their state-provided whistleblower protections, but there are still ways they file retaliation complaints, including federally through the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Act.
In January, the state agency Cannabis Control Commission suspended a whistleblower featured in a WBJ investigation. Without providing reasoning, the CCC put Business Operations Manager Meghan Dube on paid administrative leave. Dube subsequently resigned from her role.
In May, Carla LeBlanc, a nurse at Saint Vincent Hospital was fired for her appearance on a local podcast in which she spoke out about long-documented concerns regarding working conditions and interpersonal dynamics at the Worcester facility. She then filed a lawsuit against the hospital and its operator under the Massachusetts Healthcare Whistleblower Protection Act, which offers protections to private healthcare workers.
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