by Girish Anand | Jul 13, 2016 | HIPAA, OCR
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR), in charge of enforcing the privacy, security, breach and other HIPAA rules, said yesterday it has notified 167 covered entities that they must submit all papers necessary for a remote “desk audit” within 10 days....
by Girish Anand | Jul 13, 2016 | NLRB
After the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling in 2015 that temporary workers are “joint employees” of both their staffing agency and the company where they work, employers feared that the next step would be to include such joint employees...
by Girish Anand | Jul 13, 2016 | DOL, FLSA
The Department of Labor (DOL) has long been cracking down on the use of unpaid interns to do the work of employees, and the most famous case alleging such abuse — the interns on the movie “Black Swan” who filed a lawsuit for back pay — may be...
by Girish Anand | Jul 12, 2016 | OSHA
Federal courts in Texas have already been the scene of lawsuits against Obama administration initiatives regarding immigration, the “Persuader Rule” and transgender bathrooms, and now another group is seeking an injunction against the Occupational Safety...
by Girish Anand | Jul 7, 2016 | LGBT
More than a dozen states on Wednesday asked a federal judge in Texas to block initiatives by the Obama administration designed to protect the rights of transgender individuals to use the bathroom of their choice, among other LGBT anti-discrimination provisions. The...