The Los Angeles Convention Center (LACC), owned by the City of Los Angeles and managed by AEG Facilities, recently collected and donated 14.1 tons of remaining event items and 12 tons of carpet to several Los Angeles-based nonprofit organizations. The recent donations underscore the L

By Lisa Nagele-Piazza, J.D., SHRM-SCP Employees who make less than $35,568 are now eligible for overtime pay under a final rule issued today by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). The new rate will take effect Jan. 1, 2020. To be exempt from overtime under the federal Fair Labor Stand

Sports & Entertainment General Manager Barry Geisler will retire after 34 years at EagleBank Arena on the campus of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, at the end of the year. Geisler began his career in 1982 at the Oakland Coliseum and subsequently became an event coor

By Andy Weiss Bluefin, the leading provider of payment security technologies and PCI-validated point-to-point encryption (P2PE) solutions for retail, hospitality, healthcare, and higher education today announced its partnership with Ungerboeck, the world’s leading event software, to p

By Detra Page ON Services, a GES company and leading full-service audio visual provider supporting live event productions, announced the hiring of experiential experts Craig Pemberton as national sales manager for corporate business and Matt McGraw as account manager for corporate tra