by Girish Anand | Mar 11, 2011 | OSHA
Following a series of court and review commission decisions regarding personal protective equipment (PPE), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued guidance on who must pay for each type of PPE. The relevant document, Guidance for Personal...
by Girish Anand | Mar 9, 2011 | EEOC
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is requesting public commentary for a review it is launching into all its regulations to determine which "should be modified, streamlined, expanded, or repealed, to make the EEOC's regulatory program more...
by Girish Anand | Mar 8, 2011 | HIPAA
When the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), charged with enforcing the privacy and security rules of HIPAA, recently levied a $4.3-million fine on Cignet Health of Maryland, it marked the first time a HIPAA fine had been...
by Girish Anand | Mar 5, 2011 | Federal Labor Law, OSHA
The $65-million Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, beset by spidery actors falling from the heights and landing on the stage from the beginning of rehearsals, is now facing $12,500 in fines from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA),...
by Girish Anand | Mar 4, 2011 | State Labor Law
New York has augmented its already-existing New York Labor Law Section 195 with a more demanding set of requirements contained in the recently enacted Wage Theft Prevention Act (WTPA). WTPA takes effect on April 12, 2011. Section 195 had already required employers to...
