by admin | Sep 18, 2014 | DHS, ICE, USCIS
Salt Lake City-based Grand America Hotels and Resorts will forfeit nearly $2 million for hiring unauthorized workers, including illegal aliens, according to a non-prosecution agreement signed last week between the company, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah...
by admin | Sep 18, 2014 | OSHA
The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has announced the preliminary Top 10 most frequently cited workplace safety violations for fiscal year 2014 (the code is in parentheses, followed by the number of incidents): Fall...
by admin | Sep 18, 2014 | DOJ
For years the Department of Labor (DOL) has been operating a cooperative program with several states to crack down on worker misclassification — labeling actual employees as independent contractors to avoid paying taxes and benefits — and now the agency is...
by admin | Sep 16, 2014 | DOL, OFCCP
The Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has announced a proposed rule that would prohibit federal contractors from maintaining pay secrecy policies. Under the terms of the proposal, federal contractors and subcontractors...
by admin | Sep 12, 2014 | HHS, HIPAA, OCR
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) was set to begin HIPAA audits of covered entities and business associates next month, but the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is still constructing a Web portal to help in the process, thus delaying the start, according...
