by Girish Anand | Oct 12, 2009 | EEOC, Federal Labor Law
The EEOC and DOJ’s Civil Rights Division will hold four town hall meetings throughout the nation to share information and gather comments about proposed regulations in the recently enacted Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act. Each town hall meeting will...
by Girish Anand | Oct 12, 2009 | Federal Labor Law, IRS, Uncategorized
If you’ve been underpaying and/or under-reporting your company’s payroll taxes, the IRS wants to know–and collect what’s due. With the annual "tax gap" between what’s owed and what’s paid estimated at $290 billion, the...
by Girish Anand | Oct 9, 2009 | Federal Labor Law, Health Care Reform, Uncategorized
This week a House-Senate panel reconciling budget measures voted to extend for three years the E-Verify online employment eligibility system. At the same time, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) formally withdrew the "no match" safe harbor rule of the...
by Girish Anand | Oct 7, 2009 | EEOC, Personnel Concepts, Random Musings, State Labor Law
Business cheered the Supreme Court’s decision in Gross v. F.B.L. Financial Services that set the bar higher for age discrimination claims by employees. Prior to Gross, employees need merely show in court that age was one factor in their adverse job decision (a...
by Girish Anand | Oct 7, 2009 | Federal Labor Law, Uncategorized
About one-third of all employees who call in sick are faking it, a percentage that has held steady over the years. However, the chances of getting fired for abusing sick-day privileges are falling, down from 18 percent a year ago to 15 percent today, according to a...