by Girish Anand | Feb 26, 2010 | OSHA
Good question, and the answer is probably that complying with the regulations of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) probably requires constant vigilance. An Office of Compliance inspection recently showed that 70 percent of all Congressional...
by Girish Anand | Feb 24, 2010 | Federal Labor Law, HIPAA
As required by law, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has begun publicly listing breaches of private health information (PHI), generally in medical records, when the breach totals 500 or more individuals. Though breach notification rules under...
by Girish Anand | Feb 23, 2010 | Random Musings
As reported here this past November when the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced its plans, the federal tax agency has commenced the first phase of its audit of 6,000 firms of all sizes and industries to root out abuses of executive pay, fringe benefits,...
by Girish Anand | Feb 19, 2010 | State Labor Law
The federal version of the WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) Act affects businesses with 100 or more employees and requires 60 days’ advance notice of layoffs (if they reach a certain level) and of company closings. In lieu of...
by Girish Anand | Feb 17, 2010 | EEOC
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has been ordered to pay $4.56 million in attorneys’ fees and "reasonable" expenses after shoddily pursuing a sexual harassment lawsuit against a trucking firm and losing. In ordering the reparations,...