by Girish Anand | Jun 17, 2012 | EEOC
A staffing firm named Peoplemark Inc. has been awarded $752,000 in damages over a lawsuit by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that alleged racial discrimination that it could not prove, and which in fact Peoplemark showed to be the opposite of the...
by Girish Anand | Jun 14, 2012 | Federal Labor Law, U.S. Supreme Court
After the Supreme Court decertified their class-action status in Dukes v. Walmart in 2011, some 2,000 current and former female employees of Wal-Mart have filed pay and promotion discrimination claims with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), enabling...
by Girish Anand | Jun 13, 2012 | Health Care Reform, HHS, HIPAA
The Health information Technology for Clinical and Economic Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 empowered state attorneys general (AGs) to enforce HIPAA privacy and security rules. So far, four AGs have taken up the cause–in Connecticut, Indiana, Minnesota and Vermont....
by Girish Anand | Jun 12, 2012 | DOL, Federal Labor Law, OSHA
The Department of Labor (DOL) has revised the completion dates for several regulatory initiatives, with no mention of the much-ballyhooed Injury and Illness Prevention Program (I2P2) announced in fall 2010. In its Retrospective Review Progress Report, the DOL breaks...
by Girish Anand | Jun 11, 2012 | Health Care Reform, HHS
What the Health and Human Services (HHS) Department calls its HIPAA Omnibus Rule should be finalized by the end of summer, Farzad Mostashari, the national coordinator for Health IT, announced this past week. The rule, which combines four separate provisions, was...