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September 7, 2015

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HIPAA Audits to Begin Again, Vendor Selected | WWC

The Office for Civil Rights, the agency mandated to oversee compliance with the breach, privacy and security rules of the Health Insurance Accountability and Portability Act (HIPAA), has selected a third-party vendor to conduct its next round of audits. FCI Federal of Virginia is begin tasked with conducting the audits. Unlike the first round of audits, this time both covered entities and busi...

September 7, 2015

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OSHA Awards $10.5 Million in Grants to Nonprofits

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has awarded $10.5 million in one-year federal safety and health training grants to 80 nonprofit organizations across the nation for education and training programs to help high-risk workers and their employers recognize serious workplace hazards, implement injury prevention measures and understand their rights a...

September 4, 2015

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Silicon Valley Collusion Ends in $415M Deal | WWC

Led by the late Steve Jobs, several Silicon Valley high-tech firms, including Apple and Google, conspired to prevent their employees from jumping to another company for higher wages. Employees filed a class action lawsuit in 2011, and yesterday were rewarded with a $415 million settlement, about $5,800 per worker. That's far less than the $3 billion (which could've tripled under antitrust law)...

September 4, 2015

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HHS Releases Long-Awaited Nondiscrimination Rule for Health Care

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a proposed rule to advance health equity and reduce disparities in health care. The proposed rule, Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities, will assist some of the populations that have been most vulnerable to discrimination and will help provide those populations equal access to health care and health coverage. Section ...

September 4, 2015

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DOL, Vermont Join Forces to Police Misclassification of Employees

Officials from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the Vermont Department of Labor have signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) intended to protect employees' rights by preventing their misclassification as independent contractors or other non-employee statuses. Under the agreement, both agencies may share information and coordinate law enforcement. The MOU represents a new, c...

September 3, 2015

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Overtime Rule Public Comment Ends Tomorrow | WWC

According to David Weil, administrator of the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the Department of Labor (DOL), the public commentary period on the agency's proposed overtime exemption rule will not be extended and will close tomorrow, Sept. 4. In a letter to Congress, Weil noted that “a comment period of this length . . . will meet the goal . . . of ensuring Department has the level of insight f...

September 2, 2015

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Uber Lawsuit to Test Using Independent Contractors as a Business Model

Uber Technologies, a car-hailing company valued at $51 billion by Wall Street, is now the subject of a class action lawsuit in California over designating its drivers as independent contractors. Three Uber drivers originally brought the lawsuit seeking full pay and benefits and reimbursement for car expenses as company employees. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen granted the drivers'...

August 31, 2015

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Nearly 1 Million Gain Health Insurance Through Special Enrollment Periods

The next open enrollment period for Marketplace coverage begins on Nov. 1, 2015, for coverage starting on Jan. 1, 2016. Some people can sign up for health coverage outside of open enrollment, before Nov. 1, because they qualify for a special enrollment period (SEP). A consumer can qualify for a SEP for such circumstances as loss of health coverage, losing Medicaid eligibility, changes in family...

August 28, 2015

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NLRB Says Host Firms Responsible for Contract Workers | WWC

The growing practice of hiring contract workers from third-party staffing agencies instead of full-time employees took a hit yesterday when the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled 3-to-2 that such firms are nonetheless responsible for labor violations involving those workers. The ruling came in the case of Browning-Ferris Industries, a Houston-based waste management company that used a...

August 27, 2015

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EEOC Mails Out the 2015 EEO-1 Survey | WWC

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has completed its mailing of the 2015 EEO-1 survey notification letters, the federal agency announced Wednesday. The EEO-1 is an annual survey required to be filed by all private employers with 100 or more employees and federal government contractors or first-tier subcontractors with 50 or more employees and a contract/subcontract of $50,000 ...

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