by Girish Anand | Aug 31, 2010 | Health Care Reform, HIPAA
Though on Aug. 4 it withdrew its Interim Final Rule regarding HIPAA security breach notifications, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has since clarified on its Web site that the suspended rule of Sept. 23, 2009, remains in effect. "This is a...
by Girish Anand | Aug 25, 2010 | Random Musings
Class action lawsuits now outnumber all other employment-based class actions combined, according to a recent study by ELT, a compliance consulting and training organization that recently surveyed 1,800 human resource specialists and senior level managers. More than...
by Girish Anand | Aug 24, 2010 | EEOC, Federal Labor Law
With the augmentation of the Americans With Disabilities Amendments Act (ADAAA), the original ADA was used 21,500 times in 2009 to file disability discrimination claims against employers, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) statistics show. The ADAAA was...
by Girish Anand | Aug 23, 2010 | Federal Labor Law, Minimum Wage Law, State Labor Law
The newly reconstituted National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which oversees relationships between organized labor and business, this past Friday (Aug. 21, 2010) upheld the first four of hundreds of decisions rendered by the two-member NLRB that existed in the waning...
by Girish Anand | Aug 3, 2010 | Health Care Reform
Coming under criticism for allowing covered entities (in this case, those health care providers and others who maintain health records) to police themselves in matters of maintaining the privacy of Protected Health Information (PHI), the Department of Health and Human...
