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Florida Newsmakers of the Year
Business - Florida Newsmakers of the Year
• LOLA GONZALEZ
Owner, Accurate Background Check - Ocala
 [Photo: Jeffrey Camp] |
"Don't let your employee go and then give yourself a bonus," says Lola Gonzalez, owner of Accurate Background Check, an employee screening firm. In 2010, amid declining revenue, Gonzalez stopped taking a salary rather than fire one of her eight employees. Gonzalez, of course, retained ownership of the business and manages it while juggling two jobs to make ends meet: Community facilitator and "mitigation specialist" — researching the background of clients facing the death penalty to find circumstances that might cause a judge to be lenient. Her death penalty work is featured in a Yale University Press book. Her business, meanwhile, she says is "doing well."
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