Articles by Girish Anand

September 24, 2012

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EEOC Creates Tools to Educate Young Workers about Discrimination

WASHINGTON -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has released a video and accompanying classroom guides to educate working-age students about sexual harassment and other forms of employment discrimination. These tools were developed as part of EEOC's Youth@Work, an effort to educate America's youth about their employment rights and responsibilities and help employers cre...

September 21, 2012

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DOL Launches 401(k) Fee Disclosure Website for Consumers

The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has announced a new 401(k) fee disclosure website as a resource for consumers. The new website, http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/publications/understandingretirementfees.html, offers information on disclosures that, for the first time, will help workers with 401(k)-type retirement plans see what they are paying to invest their savings. It ...

September 20, 2012

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NLRB Affirms Acting General Counsel's Social Media Guidelines

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In a decision reached in early September, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled that a company's prohibition against employees' making any online statements that “damage the Company … or damage any person’s reputation” is "overly broad" and thus violates employee rights under Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Affirming an adm...

September 19, 2012

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SBCs Must Be Issued on First Day of Open Enrollment Starting Sept. 23, 2012

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) requires that employers begin issuing what's called a Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) on the first day of the company's open enrollment period for group health insurance commencing on or after Sept. 23, 2012. Thus if a company's open enrollment period runs from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31, for example, the SBCs must be issued...

September 18, 2012

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Illness Costs American Businesses Half a Trillion Dollars a Year, Study Finds

With the upcoming presidential election hinging on health care and the economy, analysis shows that poor health and its impact on productivity costs the U.S. economy $576 billion per year. This is according to estimates by the Integrated Benefits Institute (IBI), a nonprofit health and productivity research organization. In addition to showing the entire financial burden of poor health, IBI res...

September 17, 2012

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E-Verify Website Gets a Makeover and Adds New Features

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The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has made some improvements and added new features to its E-Verify site, which were implemented Sept. 16. (E-Verify is a voluntary resource that allows employers to check government documents of job applicants to verify their legal eligibility to work in the United States.) The changes are: E-Verify will now support Internet Exp...

September 17, 2012

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Statute of Limitations Tolls Against OSHA, Appeals Court Rules

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), in a unanimous ruling by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, has been told that it cannot use a five-and-half-year statute of limitations as a standard for issuing fines for safety violation reporting. The OSH Act allows just six months for citing a safety violation but requires that records on the incident be...

September 16, 2012

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ERISA Audits on the Upswing

The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has been increasing its audits of compliance with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) since the 2008 financial meltdown, observers report. To justify its increased budget and staffing for EBSA, the Department of Labor (DOL) is now targeting 3,000 ERISA audits a year. The audits generally focus on two areas. One is the issuance...

September 13, 2012

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Appellate Panel Hears Arguments on Legality of NLRB Employee Rights Poster Mandate

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A panel of judges for the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has begun hearing arguments on whether the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has the authority to require the posting of a National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) employee rights poster. Yesterday, business groups met with the judges to present their side of the argument, which is that the mandate is beyond the...

September 13, 2012

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Cost of Great Recession Estimated to Be $12.8 Trillion

A nonprofit group has cobbled together information from various sources to put forth an estimate on the cost of the Great Recession that began in 2007 and was epitomized the next year by the colossal collapse of Lehman Brothers. According to the public interest group Better Markets, the nation suffered a loss of $12.8 trillion in direct costs and reduced gross domestic product (GDP) because of ...

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