SMILEY PETE
PUBLISHING
MAY 10, 2013
VOLUME 9, ISSUE 10
Need for honey bees grows more obvious amid colony loss
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A PA R T N E R I N P R O G R E S S
Focus: Human Resources
Rest, refreshment, renewal
Design Slam invites public to experience design PAGE 10
Job sabbaticals are coveted but rare, especially in central Kentucky By Dan Dickson CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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he word “sabbatical,” with origins in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, derived from the root word “sabbath,” means a rest from work or a hiatus, often lasting a month or two but sometimes up to a year . The concept has been seen in higher education circles for decades, although in the recent economy, sabbaticals have been fewer and farther between. They still appear in corporate America as a sign-on incentive or a reward in both trendy tech companies (Intel and Adobe, for example) and a few old standards (such as General Mills and American Express). But sometimes sabbaticals are of fered in grassroots organizations. SEE SABBATICALS PAGE 13 4
Brewery build-up Alltech’s Lexington Brewing Co. in process of major expansion Erik A. Carlson
Proposed legislation would allow some undocumented immigrants to adjust their status Beginning with this installment, the Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP immigration team, the largest immigration practice in the r egion, will offer readers of Business Lexington a thr ee-part series outlining and discussing the proposed bipartisan legislation surrounding immigration reform that a group of eight senators, led by Senators John McCain and Charles Schumer, introduced into the Senate April 16: the “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act.” In Part 1, Jessica B. Oswald, a paralegal in the fir m’s Louisville office, provides an analysis of the pr oposed steps to legalize the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently in the United States.
By Jessica B. Oswald
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he immigration debate has taken a front seat in President Barack Obama’s second term, with the big question of how to handle the nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently in the country and fix an outdated immigration system. A bipartisan group of eight senators has teamed up to provide a comprehensive immigration reform package that provides commonsense solutions to problems within the current system, while shoringup the nation’s borders from another wave of illegal immigrants. SEE IMMIGRATION PAGE 114
BUSINESS LEXINGTON
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hen Alltech purchased the Lexington Brewing Company in 1999, the Kentucky Ale it produced was used mostly as a promotional item to be handed out at corporate events, according to Hal Gervis, global operations manager for Alltech’s Lexington Brewing and Distilling Co. That’s changed. Their beer is now available in 13 states; Alberta, Canada; Ireland; and in Beijing and Shanghai, and the company is in the process of shifting much of its production from its cramped brewery on Maxwell and Cross streets to the former Kentucky Eagle distribution facility on Angliana Avenue. On May 11, they’ll release their newest beer, an India Pale Ale (IP A), as a part of the inaugural Lexington Craft Beer W eek. The week culminates with Alltech’s seventh annual home brewers competition, with the winner getting a commercial batch of their beer produced and distributed in Lexington as well as being entered in the Pro/Am category at the Great American SEE ALLTECH PAGE 7 4
INSIDE
POINTS OF INTEREST: IMMIGRATION PAGE 3 • BRIEFS PAGE 4 • WHO’S WHO IN LEXINGTON PAGE 6 • NEW UK PROVOST PAGE 8 EDUCATING HR PROFESSIONALS PAGE 15 • BIZLIST: LOCAL TOP LOCAL EMPLOYERS (NON-MANUFACTURING) PAGE 16 • MENTORING PAGE 17 RJ CORMAN’S HEALTHY SPIRIT OF GIVING PAGE 18 • UK HONOR’S APPLICANT POOL PAGE 19 • PARTING THOUGHTS PAGES 20 • LEADS PAGE 22
H1-B visa quota gone in five days PAGE 12
Rules of termination: Contemplate before you terminate PAGE 14