by Girish Anand | May 31, 2013 | Health Care Reform, HHS
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today postponed a legislated feature of the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP), a health insurance marketplace for small businesses and their employees included in the Patient Protection and Affordable...
by Girish Anand | May 30, 2013 | State Labor Law
Nevada has just become the tenth state to ban most credit background checks by state employers effective Oct. 1, 2013. Originally, Senate Bill 127 banned every form of credit check by every form of employer, but in a subsequent compromise, financial institutions and...
by Girish Anand | May 30, 2013 | EEOC
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently settled its first discrimination lawsuit based on the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), but in truth, it came upon the triggering violation almost by accident. When Rhonda Jones filed a charge...
by Girish Anand | May 29, 2013 | State Labor Law
A law effective this July 1 will restrict the the rights of employers in Colorado to conduct background credit checks during the hiring or promotion process except for limited exemptions. Employers will not be allowed to run credit checks unless they 1) are a bank or...
by Girish Anand | May 28, 2013 | I-9, ICE
The Worksite Investigation Enforcement Unit of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has come out in the past month against the pre-population of information on Section 1 of the Form I-9, the employment eligibility verification document used for all new...