by Girish Anand | Sep 7, 2011 | Health Care Reform, HHS
In its annual report to Congress, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) said it is developing audit protocol to conduct audits of up to 145 covered entities in an ongoing effort to enforce the privacy and security rules of HIPAA. The Office for Civil Rights of the...
by Girish Anand | Sep 6, 2011 | DOL
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is proposing revisions to child labor regulations that it hopes will strengthen the safety requirements for young workers employed in agriculture and related fields. The agricultural hazardous occupations orders under the Fair Labor...
by Girish Anand | Sep 2, 2011 | EEOC
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is suing American Samoa, alleging the U.S. territorial government discriminates against older workers. According to the complaint filed Tuesday (Aug. 30, 2011) in Hawaii, the director of the territory's human...
by Girish Anand | Sep 1, 2011 | NLRB
With Wilma Liebman already departed, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is down to three members with another departure looming at the end of the year. Nevertheless, the board has been busy overturning Bush-era decisions just days after publishing a final rule...
