by Girish Anand | May 20, 2013 | EEOC
Wellness programs are an increasingly common feature of employee benefits programs, and guidance is needed to avoid violations of federal equal employment opportunity laws, a panel of experts representing business, advocacy groups and providers told the Equal...
by Girish Anand | May 19, 2013 | NLRB
Throwing all decisions of the National Labor Rrelations Board (NLRB) since 2010 into doubt, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the recess appointment of Craig Becker on March 27 of that year was unconstitutional. As with the D.C. Circuit Court of...
by Girish Anand | May 15, 2013 | Minimum Wage Law, State Labor Law
New York will greet New Year's Day 2014 with a new state minimum wage law in effect, the rate rising from $7.25 an hour to $9 an hour over a three-year period. The legislation was signed into law this past April 1. The minimum wage will first rise to $8 an hour,...
by Girish Anand | May 14, 2013 | Health Care Reform, HHS, PPACA
Utah and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) this past week agreed to a fourth model for what the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) once called insurance exchanges but are now dubbed health insurance marketplaces. Under the new model,...
by Girish Anand | May 14, 2013 | EEOC
A jury recently awarded $7.5 million each to 32 mentally disabled Iowa plant workers who were abused for years, giving the Equal Employment Oppotunity Commission (EEOC) a short-lived historical verdict of $240 million. This past Friday, however, both the EEOC and...
