Articles by Girish Anand

March 7, 2014

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EEOC Issues Guidance on Workplace Religious Dress and Grooming

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued two new technical assistance publications addressing workplace rights and responsibilities with respect to religious dress and grooming under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The question-and-answer guide, entitled "Religious Garb and Grooming in the Workplace: Rights and Responsibilities," and an accompanyi...

March 6, 2014

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Personnel Concepts Earns A+ Rating from Better Business Bureau

Our parent company, Personnel Concepts, has been awarded an A+ accreditation by the Better Business Bureau of Central California. Here's what the BBB site says: BBB has determined that Personnel Concepts Limited meets BBB accreditation standards, which include a commitment to make a good faith effort to resolve any consumer complaints. See more on the BBB site.

March 6, 2014

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EEOC Sets Meeting on Social Meeting for March 12

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will hold a meeting on Wednesday, March 12, at 9:30 a.m. (Eastern Time), at agency headquarters, 131 M Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20507. In accordance with the Sunshine Act, the open session of the meeting will be open to public observation of the Commission's deliberations. The Commission will hear from invited panelists on how t...

March 6, 2014

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Substandard Health Plans Given an Election-Year Extension

In a mostly symbolic move designed to stem Democratic losses in the 2014 and 2016 elections, the Obama administration has now given the green light to individuals and businesses to "keep it if you like it" -- their "substandard" health insurance plans -- until October 2017, providing the states and the insurance companies go along. Administration officials discussing t...

March 6, 2014

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USCIS Issues I-9 Employee Information Sheet

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has issued a new Form I-9 Empoyee Information Sheet to answer frequent employee questions about the form, along with tips on filling out Section One. The sheet is available in both Spanish and English at I-9 Central.

March 5, 2014

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HealthCare.gov One-Year Operating Expenses: $1.8 Billion

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) says it needs $1.8 billion (with a "B") to run the federal Obamacare website, HealthCare.gov, in fiscal 2015. Officials said about $1.2 billion of that will come from fees tied to Obamacare, but Congress will have to cough up the remaining $600 million. "If Congress funds the president’s budget … this would full...

March 5, 2014

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SCOTUS Extends, Affirms Reach of Whistleblower Protections

A 6-3 Supreme Court decision has reaffirmed the extension of whistleblower protections under the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act of 2002 to a public company's contractors and subcontractors. SOX states that no "public company ..., or any officer, employee, contractor, subcontractor or agent of such company, may discharge, demote, suspend, threaten, harass or in any other manner discrimi...

March 3, 2014

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DOL Proposes New Reporting Requirements for Federal Contractors

The Department of Labor (DOL) has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to change the way federal contractors report on their hiring of veterans, basically, to have them report aggregate numbers instead of by category. The NPRM states: The NPRM proposes revising the annual report prescribed by the regulations to require contractors and subcontractors to report the specified inf...

March 2, 2014

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EPA Set to Impose California-Style Fuel Standards on the U.S.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday is set to announce a new fuel rule that will mimic California's by mandating a two-thirds cut in the level of sulfur in gasoline. Specifically, the rule will require the oil industry to reduce sulfur in gasoline from 30 parts per million to 20 parts per million. The result would be cleaner air and less smog, according to a report in ...

February 27, 2014

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NYT/CBS Poll: Six Percent Favor Obamacare As Is

Moving beyond the like/dislike polls of Obamacare since 2010, in which the majority has always opted for "dislike," the latest poll by CBS and the New York Times posed three options: (1) like Obamacare as it is, (2) keep Obamacare but modify it, and (3) scrap it totally. Only six percent of respondents chose option one to keep Obamacare pristine, 50 percent chose option two, and...

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