Minggu, 29 April 2012

Profil BURSA FE UNSOED

BURSA FE UNSOED

“WE WANT TO BE ENTREPRENEUR”

Sejarah Singkat
Bursa FE unsoed dibentuk pada tanggal 6 Oktober 1989 yang bertempat di sekretariat bersama FE Unsoed Purwokerto. Bursa FE Unsoed merupakan UKM yang bergerak di bidang kewirausahaan, yang didasari oleh semakin meningkatnya kompetisi dunia kerja sehingga lulusan dari Perguruan Tinggi diharapkan akan mampu menciptakan lapangan kerja baru.
Pengetahuan tidak hanya diperoleh oleh civitas akademika secara formal, tetapi dapat juga diperoleh secara informal yang bertujuan mengoptimalkan potensi para mahasiswa yang nantinya dapat menampung kiprahnya ketika terjun di masyarakat.
Melalui UKM Bursa FE mahasiswa dapat menerapkan ilmu yang diperolehnya dalam bidang keorganisasian dan kewirausahaan.


Fungsi, Visi dan Misi
Fungsi :
Bursa FE Unsoed berfungsi sebagai wahana kegiatan ekstrakurikuler yang bersifat penerapan keilmuan sesuai studi ekonomi.
Visi : Menjadi organisasi yang mampu menghasilkan entrepreneur yang berkualitas.
Misi :
1.     Menyelenggarakan usaha sebagai upaya untuk mencapai kesejahteraan anggota pada khususnya dan mahasiswa pada umumnya
2.    Menyelenggarakan usaha untuk mengembangkan jiwa kewirausahaan dan kemampuan berorganisasi
3.    Menyiapkan kader-kader sebagai upaya kaderisasi

Usaha
Sampai saat ini, Bursa FE telah memiliki tiga macam usaha, yaitu Mini Market, Fotocopy, dan selular (isi ulang pulsa).

Keanggotaan
Anggota Bursa FE Unsoed adalah mahasiswa FE Unsoed yang memenuhi persyaratan keanggotaan. Syarat  utamanya adalah membayar simpanan Pokok sebesar Rp5000 dan mengikuti makrab serta Pelantikan. 

Struktur Pengurus

v  Sekretaris Eksekutif
Sekretaris Eksekutif: melakukan fungsi administrasi secara keseluruhan baik intern maupun ekstern. Sekretaris Eksekutif dibantu oleh dua staf, yaitu kesekretariatan dan kerumahtanggaan.

v  Keuangan
sebagai pencatat keuangan, mengontrol dan mengawasi keluar masuknya uang yang digunakan untuk kegiatan non usaha. Selain itu, bidang keuangan juga mengelola simpanan anggota.

v  Personalia
mengurusi kegiatan-kegiatan untuk anggota. Terdiri dari tiga bidang, yaitu  Hubungan Internal & Eksternal (Hubineks),Bursa Event Organizer (BEO),Pengembangan Sumber Daya Manusia (PSDM)
                                        
v  Operasional
Bagian ini merupakan simbol kewirausahaan dari Bursa FE. Karena berhubungan langsung dengan kegiatan usaha yang dimiliki Bursa FE Unsoed. Ada empat bagian dari bidang operasional yaitu : Mini Market, Fotocopy, Seluler, dan Expansi Usaha.

Apa keuntungan jadi anggota Bursa FE?
  • Mengembangkan jiwa kewirausahaan & organisasi
  • Mengaplikasikan ilmu yang didapat di kelas
  • Bisa praktik bisnis
  • Dapat link
  • Bisa dapat uang saku tambahan
  • Dapat teman dan keluarga baru, dll

REALITA DI LAPANGAN :
- lapangan pekerjaan semakin sempit
-tingkat pengangguran semakin tinggi
-orang-orang terkaya di dunia ini adalah    Entrepreneur

Kamis, 19 April 2012

Los Angeles County Superior Court: Expect Delays

The Los Angeles County Superior Court ("LASC"), the largest unified trial court in the United States, has announced it will cut staff and close courtrooms. This is sure to exacerbate the situation at an already crowded local court system, and perhaps will also encourage attorneys and litigants to make heavier use of alternative dispute resolution methods such as mediation and arbitration, or in some cases pressure them into settlements versus going to trial. The Secretary of State's staff cuts which took place several years ago are still being felt in slower processing times, and presumably staff cuts at LASC will have a similar slowing effect. LASC's press release follows:
The Los Angeles Superior Court today announces plans for the most significant reduction of services in its history. By June 30, 2012, the Court will reduce its staff by nearly 350 workers, close 56 courtrooms, reduce its use of court reporters and eliminate the Informal Juvenile Traffic Courts.

According to Presiding Judge Lee Smalley Edmon, “Staffing reductions due to budget cuts over the past 10 years have forced our court to reduce staffing by 24%, while case filings continue to increase. This has created incredible pressures on our court to keep up with our work. We cannot endure these pressures for much longer.”
In the current year, additional staffing reductions are required to deal with the fact that the state’s budget crisis has resulted in a reduction to the California judicial branch of $652 million. The Court has managed its share of these cuts by spending down year-end fund balances, freezing wages, furloughing court staff, and eliminating staff positions, achieving $70 million in ongoing savings as of last fiscal year.

“This year, the state cuts are forcing us to reduce our spending by an additional $30 million – on top of the $70 million in reductions we have already made,” notes Edmon. “There will be as many as 350 dedicated, skilled court workers who will no longer be serving the residents of Los Angeles County. When we lose those people, we will no longer be able to shield the core work of the court – the courtroom – from the budget crisis.”

The $30 million reduction plan, which will take effect by June 30, 2012, has four components:

First, the Court is closing 56 courtrooms, a move made necessary by the depth and breadth of the reductions.

The courtrooms being impacted include 24 civil, 24 criminal, 3 family, 1 probate, and 4 juvenile delinquency courts. The caseloads of those courtrooms are being distributed among the remaining courtrooms. Judicial officers whose courtrooms are impacted will be reassigned to fill vacancies, to share staff or to handle settlement conferences to resolve cases without trials.

Second, on May 15, 2012, the Los Angeles Superior Court will no longer provide court reporters for civil trials. In addition, after June 18, 2012, court reporters will be available for civil law-and-motion matters on a limited basis. (No changes are being made to the provision of court reporters in criminal, family, probate, delinquency or dependency matters.)

Third, the Court is again making significant reductions to its non-courtroom staff. Having made 329 layoffs and lost another 229 court staff through attrition over the past two years, the Court anticipates making more than 100 additional non-courtroom staff reductions by June 30, 2012. “Our judges and staff have shown incredible dedication and commitment in keeping the court running during these past two years. But these new reductions will not allow it to be business as usual. There will be longer lines at clerk’s windows across the county and slower responses to the public’s needs across the court,” said Edmon.

Fourth, the Court will eliminate its Informal Juvenile Traffic Court program (IJTC). IJTC is an innovative program in which minors who commit low-level offenses are held to account for their actions by the court and by their parents – but outside of the traditional delinquency system. “These courts have allowed us to address tens of thousands of offenses in a more appropriate forum than delinquency court,” said Assistant Presiding Judge David Wesley. “We are losing a crucial element of the juvenile justice system to lack of funding.”

“It saddens me to have to make these layoffs,” notes Presiding Judge Edmon. “These actions are affecting people who have made a commitment to public service, to justice. We have had incredible cooperation of all our staff and our labor representatives through the past few years of these trying economic times. We should be in a position to reward them, not to have to inflict further pain.”

“These extraordinary actions,” says Presiding Judge Edmon, “cut into the core work of the courts. With risks of more reductions on the horizon, we are already rationing justice. The Judicial Council must find fiscal relief for the trial courts – from any and all sources. The public cannot tolerate any further major service reductions.”

Notices to litigants and to attorneys regarding these changes are proceeding. Pursuant to statute and rule of court, relevant notices to attorneys and the public regarding the moving of case types, and changes to filing locations, can be found through the court’s website: go to www.lasuperiorcourt.org, click on “News and Media”, then click on “Notices to Attorneys.” For relevant judicial orders, click on “Court Rules” and look under the “Special Notices” tab.

No cases are being dismissed because of these actions.
"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser - in fees, expenses, and waste of time." - Abraham Lincoln

Sabtu, 14 April 2012

California Employers Not Liable for Employees' Work During Meal and Rest Breaks

California employers are hailing a rare labor law victory in California courts. Brinker International, Inc., which operates chain restaurants such as Chili's and Maggiano's Little Italy, successfully defended a claim by employees relating to work performed during meal and rest breaks. The court ruled that employers are obliged to provide meal and rest breaks mandated by California law, but are not required to monitor empoyees to ensure they do not perform any work during these breaks. If employees do voluntarily work during their breaks, the employer is not liable to these employees for such work. Employers continue to be liable for monetary penalties if meal and rest breaks are not provided.

Working Through Lunch? Not the Boss' Problem, Court Rules, Los Angeles Times, April 12, 2012.

New NLRB Workplace Poster Requirement

Effective April 30, 2012, all employers must add one more workplace poster to their existing workplace postings: a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) poster regarding employees' rights to organize and bargain collectively.

Sabtu, 07 April 2012

California Commission-Based Employees Must Be Under Written Contract By January 1, 2013

California employers of employees whose compensation includes commissions should be aware that, per Labor Code Section 2751, they need to enter into written agreement with such employees stating how commissions will be computed and paid.

See also New 2012 California Employment Laws

Rabu, 28 Maret 2012

Final Approval by House Sends Jobs Bill to President for Signature - NYTimes.com

This is big deal and a possible sea change for many startup companies.  Kudos to our legislators for getting together and trying to put some real changes in place to support our high growth economy.  Of course there are risks, but I'm betting they prove to be somewhat illusory and the returns are meaningful.

ARTICLE:

Final Approval by House Sends Jobs Bill to President for Signature - NYTimes.com:

'via Blog this'

WASHINGTON — The House gave overwhelming final approval on Tuesday to a package of measures intended to ease access to capital and investments for entrepreneurs, sending the bipartisan legislation to President Obama, who has said he will sign it.
The 380-to-41 House vote added a final exclamation point for the JOBS Act, which passed the House overwhelmingly early this month andeasily passed the Senate last Thursday. Because the Senate amended the House version to add some investor protections, the House had to take it back up for a vote before sending it to the White House.
“The bipartisan JOBS Act represents an increasingly rare legislative victory in Washington where both sides seized the opportunity to work together, improved the bill and passed it with strong bipartisan support,” said Representative Eric Cantor, Republican of Virginia, the House majority leader and the primary architect of the package.
The JOBS Act started as a cluster of minor bills that had bipartisan support and little opposition. Many of them originated at the White House out of the recommendations of Mr. Obama’s jobs council, a group of business and labor leaders whose final report made few waves.
But with the economy still looming large in the 2012 campaign, Republicans and Democrats — Mr. Obama among them — found it advantageous to pump up those modest measures into legislation promoted as a significant effort to hasten the recovery of the labor market.
“As the clock moves relentlessly toward November, people are going to have to show results,” said Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon and a supporter of the measure.
The JOBS Act would designate a new category of “emerging growth” companies that could conduct initial public offerings of stock while being exempt from certain financial disclosure and governance requirements for up to five years. It would also provide a new form of financing to small companies. Through crowd-funding, or the sale of small amounts of stock to many individuals, companies could solicit equity investments through the Internet or elsewhere, raising up to $1 million annually without being required to register the shares for public trading with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Supporters see it as a breakthrough for entrepreneurs who hope to build an enterprise around sometimes offbeat ideas without having to sell them to larger companies.
But a few detractors worry that the measure will bring back the “boiler rooms” of the 1990s Internet stock bubble, where hucksters peddle stock tips to unwitting amateur investors. Pension funds, the lobby for older Americans AARP and the chairwoman of the securities commission had opposed aspects of the bill.
Amy Borrus, a spokeswoman for the Council of Institutional Investors, an investor watchdog group, said small companies — the focus of the new bill’s relaxed regulations — are particularly prone to fraud and accounting scandals. Senators did add some investor protections, but not enough, she said.
“We may rue the day this bill passed,” Ms. Borrus said Tuesday.
Under the JOBS bill, companies with up to $1 billion in annual revenue would be free to ignore — for their first five years as a public company — regulations that were put in place after the end of the dot-com bubble and the collapse of Enron.
Among them are requirements to hire an independent outside auditor to attest to a company’s internal financial controls and restrictions on how financial analysts interact with investment bankers in promoting a company’s stock.
The bill also allows some companies to advertise for investors in almost any medium, a provision that skeptical regulators contend will mainly benefit the sale of worthless securities by brokerage firms.
Senate Democrats did add some investor protections that were ratified Tuesday by the House. Senators added a provision to ensure that any company using crowd-funding methods must still file some basic information with the securities commission, including the names of directors, officers and holders of more than 20 percent of the company’s shares, plus a description of the business and its financial condition.
Companies seeking to raise $100,000 or less must also provide tax returns and a financial statement certified by a company principal; those raising up to $500,000 must provide financial statements that are reviewed by an independent public accountant.
The Senate also inserted requirements that intermediaries seeking to help companies raise money through crowd-funding must register with the commission, make sure investors are advised of the risks they are taking, and take measures to prevent fraud.

Kamis, 16 Februari 2012

Social Media Accounts After Death

As people's online personas become an increasingly important part of their lives, families and friends are encountering confusion and frustration in trying to manage the Facebook, Twitter and email accounts of their deceased loved ones.

State probate laws, which govern how a deceased's next of kin or estate executor can access things like property and bank accounts, generally weren't designed with today's online lives in mind. So, lawmakers in several states—including Nebraska and Oklahoma—have tried in recent years to tackle the complex question of who can manage the online presence of the deceased, and what legal authority they should have. ....

But legal experts say that the terms of service users must agree to when they sign up with social-media sites, which typically dictate what happens to an account after the user dies, could take precedent over the state laws. An Oklahoma lawmaker involved in legislation on the topic says the risk is creating laws that are "toothless."

Facebook, for example, has extensive user agreements and privacy policies that cite various state and federal laws, including the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which generally forbids it from "providing access to any person who is not an account owner." ....
Deaths Pose Test for Facebook by Steve Eder, Wall Street Journal, February 11, 2012