by Girish Anand | Aug 22, 2011 | EEOC, Federal Labor Law
A U.S. District Judge in San Francisco has set Oct. 28 as the date that former Wal-Mart class-action plaintiffs must file new lawsuits, but the order applies only to those women who previously had filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
by Girish Anand | Aug 21, 2011 | Health Care Reform, HHS
Though the Department of Health and Human Services has announced it will stop granting waivers from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) at the end of this September, this past week it granted another 106 of them. This brings the total of all waivers...
by Girish Anand | Aug 17, 2011 | Federal Labor Law
In Ricci v. DeStefano, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the 19 white and one Hispanic plaintiffs had been wrongly denied promotions when the New Haven, Conn., Fire Department decided to reject the results of a promotional exam as being biased and then promote...
by Girish Anand | Aug 16, 2011 | Health Care Reform, HIPAA
When earlier this year the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) hit Cignet Health with a $4.3 million civil penalty, it represented the opening volley in teethier enforcement of the HIPAA Privacy Rule under a new law that vastly increased the potential for fines. Cignet...
by Girish Anand | Aug 15, 2011 | Federal Labor Law, Minimum Wage Law
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to invite the public to provide input on the development and implementation of a compensation data collection tool. Possible uses for the collected data...