Council in the News
New ranking puts Mass. among worst in U.S. for business tax climate
January 7, 2022Boston Business Journal By: Doug Banks The business tax climate in Massachusetts remained among the worst in the U.S., according to a newly released index, but it's still doing better than its Southern New England neighbors — and far better than...
COVID could soon turn from a pandemic to an endemic, panel says
December 14, 2021Boston HeraldBy: Amy Sokolow Businesses that want, or need, to get people back into the office can take a page from some of the public-facing organizations that have had no choice but to keep their workplace open—by testing, requiring masks and...
Baker signs $4B ARPA bill but pushes back on how to deploy bonuses, health funds
December 13, 2021Boston Business Journal By: Staff Gov. Charlie Baker on Monday signed $4 billion legislation allocating a large chunk of the state’s American Rescue Plan Act funding, but he rejected a handful of provisions approved by lawmakers that he said would...
With Charlie Baker out, who will big business back for governor?
December 6, 2021The Boston GlobeBy: Shirley Leung After three straight governors with close ties to the state’s private sector, business leaders wonder if they’ll still have a friend in the corner office on Beacon Hill Massachusetts has a history of...
Confusion mounts over federal employer vaccination mandate
December 1, 2021Boston HeraldBy: Amy Sokolow Courts around the country have eaten away at President Biden’s vaccination mandate for both federal contractors and employers with over 100 employees, leaving those tasked with implementing the edict in the lurch. “There...
Bold Types: The CEO running his Wakefield company from an attic has a remote-work model for all | It’s all in the wording
November 29, 2021The Boston GlobeBy: Jon Chesto Gladys Vega takes a bow and goes back to work; BC taps Barros; Battle brews over millionaires tax ballot wording; The value of a neighborhood bank Andy Freed isn’t the kind of chief executive who longs for...
Massachusetts is now flush with cash, possibly reshaping debate over proposed millionaires tax
November 25, 2021The Boston GlobeBy: Matt Stout Massachusetts has nearly $5 billion in unspent federal stimulus dollars to spread to its residents. At least another $8 billion in aid is coming from the US government to help repair roads, bolster public transit,...
Baystate Business: Millionaires Tax (Radio)
Bloomberg Baystate Business Radio for Thursday, November 18, 2021 Massachusetts High Technology Council President Chris Anderson joins hosts Joe Shortsleeve, Janet Wu, and Anne Mostue to discuss the misleading nature of the proposed Graduated Income Tax Amendment...
Campaign behind initiative in Mass. to classify app-based drivers as independent contractors submits 260,000 signatures to county administrators
November 18, 2021Ballotpedia NewsBy: Victoria Antram On Nov. 16, the Massachusetts Coalition for Independent Work announced that they had submitted a total of 260,000 signatures to local clerks in their bid to place a ballot initiative on the 2022 ballot that...
Business group threatens SJC challenge to millionaires tax language
November 17, 2021Boston Business Journal By: Greg Ryan The Massachusetts High Technology Council is likely to launch a court challenge to the ballot language for the so-called millionaires' tax unless the ballot question says the tax would not necessarily...
Where Massachusetts leaders stand on ‘app-based workers’ remaining contractors
October 11, 2021Boston Business Journal By: Lucia Maffei A bill that would designate app-based drivers as independent contractors, while creating a small benefits program for drivers, is spurring debate among lawmakers, academics and the drivers themselves in...
Should Massachusetts require employers upon request to disclose the pay scale for a position to a job applicant or an employee in that position?
September 12, 2021 The Boston Globe By: John Laidler NO Christopher R. Anderson President, Massachusetts High Technology Council; Westford resident Eliminating wage discrimination where it exists is a central goal of a vast majority of Massachusetts...
Massachusetts Medical Leaders Advise Workplace Vaccine Mandates
August 10, 2021Boston HeraldBy: Amy Sokolow Business and medical leaders from some of Boston’s biggest institutions have instituted vaccine mandates for their workplaces, and think others should do the same. “The most important thing employers can do is to encourage...
Baystate Business: Breakthrough Cases (Radio)
Bloomberg Baystate Business Radio for Friday, July 30, 2021 Massachusetts High Technology Council President Chris Anderson joins hosts Tom Moroney, Kim Carrigan and Anne Mostue to discuss the changing mask guidance and how Mass. High Tech Council members are thinking...
Baystate Business: Congressman Keating (Radio)
July 14, 2021Bloomberg Baystate Business (Radio)Hosts: Tom Moroney, Joe Shortsleeve, and Kim Carrigan | Producer: Dan Pierce Bloomberg Baystate Business for Wednesday, July 14, 2021 | Click HERE to listen - Janet Wu reports on OPT Industries, an MIT spinoff that has...
Three Biz Groups Take Sides in Debate Over App-Based Drivers, Benefits
July 8, 2021State House News ServiceBy: Chris Lisinksi A trio of regional business organizations in Massachusetts threw their support behind gig economy giants in the growing debate over pay and benefits for the state's more than 200,000 app-based drivers. The...
Lawmakers Advance Income Surtax to 2022 Ballot
June 9, 2021State House News ServiceBy: Colin A. Young, with contributions from Chris Van Buskirk and Michael P. Norton With a vote of the House and Senate Wednesday afternoon, the Massachusetts Legislature effectively kicked off a year-and-a-half-long ballot campaign...
Legislature passes Fair Share amendment again
June 9, 2021CommonWealth MagazineBy: Shira Schoenberg The Massachusetts Legislature on Wednesday passed a constitutional amendment raising taxes on income over $1 million, the final vote needed to put the measure on the November 2022 ballot. The Fair Share Amendment,...
Massachusetts Legislature overwhelmingly advances proposed tax on top earners to 2022 ballot
June 9, 2021The Boston GlobeBy: Matt Stout Massachusetts lawmakers overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to advance a sweeping change to the state tax code to the 2022 ballot, kickstarting what’s expected to be a bruising political debate over whether the wealthiest...
Baystate Business: Millionaires Tax (Radio)
June 8, 2021Bloomberg Baystate Business (Radio)Hosts: Joe Shortsleeve, Kim Carrigan and Anne Mostue | Producer: Dan Pierce Bloomberg Baystate Business for Tuesday, June 8th, 2021 | Click HERE to listen - Bloomberg News reporter Alyza Sebenius on the recovery of ransom...