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Local law firm recognized as one of
the 'best places to work'
Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover,
P.C., with offices in Brunswick, was
recently honored as one of Atlanta’s
“Best Places to Work” by Atlanta
Magazine. The survey, published
in the July 2008 issue, recognizes
Atlanta’s top 40 companies based on
employee job satisfaction.
To determine the top-ranked
businesses for this honor, Atlanta
Magazine asked employees to nomi
nate companies that they felt pro
vided excellent work environments.
Between August 2007 and January
2008, 725 employees nominated 176
companies for this honor. Nominat
ing employees were asked to rank
the validity of 20 statements about
their job satisfaction.
Atlanta Magazine then worked
with management experts and local
human resource firms to rank the
top employers. Earning the No. 25
ranking, Hall, Booth Smith & Slover
is one of three law firms on the list.
Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover is
a full-service law firm with offices
in Atlanta, Albany, Athens, Bruns
wick, Columbus, Tifton and Nash
ville, Tenn. The firm has experience
in health care, professional malprac
tice, transportation, long-term care
and elder housing regulation and
government affairs.
The Brunswick office of Hall,
Booth, Smith & Slover has long
served not only the citizens of
Brunswick, but clients throughout
Southeast Georgia, from Waycross
to Savannah to Augusta, providing
legal services to individuals, as well
as those in business and professional
communities.
Its mission is to ethically and pro
fessionally serve clients by providing
the highest quality legal representa
tion in a personally satisfying firm
environment. □
Mercury Marine has another round of job cuts
By Jim Shepherd
Not good news on the manufactur
ing front. Mercury Marine has initiated
yet another round of job cuts and will
suspend production at the company's
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin facility starting
August 28.
Mercury Marine, a subsidiary of
Brunswick Corporation of Lake Forest,
Illinois, has already experienced tough
times due to slow boat sales and what
officials call a "poor economy'. This lat
est cut for the engine maker will mean
60 jobs will be cut with the August
28 shutdown being extended from two
weeks to three. Company spokesman
Steve Fleming told the Wisconsin State
Journal that more layoffs "may be com
ing" but he didn't know how many.
The Outdoor Wire - Wednesday, July
30, 2008. □
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THE ISLANDER, AUGUST 4, 2008, PAGE 3
Business Upda
TWIC timeline announced for
Savannah and Brunswick
• Mandatory December 1, 2008
In compliance with the federal
government’s recent announcement,
the Georgia Ports Authority’s (GPA)
will begin requiring Transportation
Worker Identification Credential
(TWIC) as early as December 2008,
at the ports of Savannah and Bruns
wick.
Starting December 1, unescorted
access to any GPA terminal without
a valid TWIC will be prohibited. Port
users are being advised to retain
their GPA credentials. Those cre
dentials will remain valid and also
necessary for presentation to gain
access to terminal facilities after the
TWIC compliance date.
“Earlier this year, GPA employees
completed the TWIC enrollment pro
cess,” said GPA’s Executive Director
Doug J. Marchand. “We strongly
encourage all members of the port
community to apply for their TWIC
as soon as possible to ensure the pro
gram’s successful implementation
and to avoid being denied access.”
In many cases, it takes months to
produce the cards, so now is the time
to enroll to avoid delays. Already,
more than 6,600 have enrolled at
Savannah’s TWIC enrollment center,
and more than 4,800 have received
their cards. In Brunswick, more than
1,400 have enrolled and almost 1,000
credentials have been issued.
In Brunswick, the TWIC enroll
ment center is located at Georgia
Power, Plant McManus at 1 Crispen
Island Drive.The center is open from
8 a.m. until 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday.
Each applicant is required to pro
vide biographic information, sign a
disclosure form, provide a complete
set of fingerprints, sit for a digital
photograph, provide the necessary
identity verification documents and
pay an enrollment fee of $132.50.
The credential is valid for five years.
Visit the TWIC website to pre-enroll
or for more information at www.tsa.
gov/twic.
Georgia’s deepwater ports and
inland barge terminals support more
than 286,476 jobs throughout the
state annually and contribute $14.9
billion in income, $55.8 billion in
revenue and $2.8 billion in state and
local taxes to Georgia’s economy.
For information, contact Robert
Morris, GPA’s Director of External
Affairs, at (912) 964-3855 or rmor-
ris@gaports.com. Visit the GPA web
site at gaports.com. □
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