NEW JOBS FOR MASSACHUSETTS LAUNCHES
Group Advocates Job Creation
Boston and Worcester, MA...Today Mike Hruby and Marty Lamb launched an advocacy
group focused on job creation in Massachusetts called New Jobs for Massachusetts
(NJFM).
"We have a job crisis in Massachusetts. We've had no net job growth in 21 years,"
said Hruby, President of NJFM.
Jobs Needed
Unemployed workers
300,000
Under-employed workers
600,000
College graduates per year
90,000
High school graduates not going to college
10,000
Total
1 million
"Right now we need one million new jobs in the Commonwealth. Due to this urgent
need, we felt it was important to establish this advocacy group solely focused in
on growing jobs. There are many government barriers to creating jobs and someone
needs to address them," said Hruby.
First on his agenda is to fight the independent contractor rule which is the worst
in the country. Presently, the way the regulation is written it is nearly impossible
to do contract work. It forces companies to make everyone an employee which on the
surface seems productive, but it actually suffocates new service firms from growing
and thus hiring a skilled workforce.
"Our goal is to reverse the anti-jobs laws passed on Beacon Hill by educating our
elected officials on the difficulties of adding to a business payroll. As small
business owners, we know first hand how difficult our laws and regulations can be.
By eliminating or reducing barriers, we can spur on critical job growth," said Marty
Lamb, Vice President of NJFM. "My daughter just graduated from high school. I want
her to have the economic opportunities I had when starting out."
There are several groups such as the National Federation of Independent Business
and Associated Industries of Massachusetts that focus on the business side of legislative
issue. NJFM will advocate for policies that grow jobs both in large and small businesses.
NJFM is funded by private small contributions so this new organization does not
have a membership list that might face retaliation from the State House for being
vocal on issues.
Mike Hruby has been a consultant to large and mid-sized technology companies for
more than 20 years. During the course of over 500 projects his firm helped companies
nationwide enter new markets for their products. Since 2004 he built a data center
cooling business for a client based on its patent, and found licensees for corporate
technologies. He wrote an award-winning book on corporate growth strategy titled
Technoleverage. He has a Master's degree in Resource Economics from the University
of New Hampshire. He lives in Boxborough, Mass., with his wife, Leslie.
Mr. Lamb graduated from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University
in 1985 and received his Bachelor of Arts from Hampshire College in 1982. He has
an extensive background in real estate law, formerly with Adelson, Golden & Loria,
P.C., Edward A. Sokoloff & Associates, and Lamb & Shaffer, P.C. and is currently
with Lamb and Browne, P.C. He is a member of the Real Estate Bar Association of
Massachusetts and small business. An active participant in community affairs, Mr.
Lamb sits on the Board of Directors of New England Region of United Synagogue and
is a past president of Temple Beth Torah in Holliston. He has also served on the
Holliston Elementary School Council and the Campaign for Holliston Schools. In
2010 Lamb won the hotly contested GOP primary for Congress in the 3rd district.
www.NewMassJobs.com
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