by Girish Anand | Mar 16, 2010 | Federal Labor Law, IRS
Testifying before a House subcommittee, Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Hilda Solis recently detailed plans for fiscal 2011 to use $1.7 billion out of a budget of $116.5 billion, along with 10,957 employees out of 17,800 total, for what she called "worker...
by Girish Anand | Mar 8, 2010 | Federal Labor Law
The City of Detroit recently settled an Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) lawsuit filed by an employee who unsuccessfully sought a reasonable accommodation because a coworker’s perfume made it difficult for her to breathe. Now, one might conclude that a...
by Girish Anand | Mar 4, 2010 | OSHA
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has dispatched about 15,000 letters to companies to notify them that their rates of illness and injury are higher than average. These so-called DART (Days Away, Restricted and Transfer) reports generally are...
by Girish Anand | Mar 3, 2010 | Federal Labor Law, HIPAA
Though HITECH (the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health act) took full effect this past Feb. 17, provisions regarding business associates were still vague, as we noted at the time. Now, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) in the Department of...
by Girish Anand | Mar 2, 2010 | Federal Labor Law
To make a long story short, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been trying–with delayed implementation–to get the nation’s businesses that grant credit to protect their clients’ and consumers’ identities by requiring them to adhere to...