Articles by Girish Anand

May 29, 2012

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NLRB Issues Statement After Resignation of Member Accused of Leaking Documents

After member Terence F. Flynn resigned from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) over the Memorial Day weekend amid accusations of having leaked documents to GOP colleagues, the four remaining board members today issued a statement in hopes of calming the trouble waters from events they termed "a distraction" from "our mission." The statement reads, in a part directed t...

May 29, 2012

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PPACA and All Other Supreme Court Decisions Expected by End of June

Several Supreme Court justices will begin teaching law school classes on July 1 at exclusive European retreats, meaning that all the court's current term decisions--including the one on the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)--will be issued by June 30, if not earlier. Associate Justices earn $213,900 a year and can supplemen...

May 26, 2012

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Company Forfeits $2 Million to Avoid I-9 Prosecution

ABC Professional Tree Services Inc. (ABC) has agreed to adhere to revised immigration compliance procedures and to pay $2 million as forfeited funds to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) related to revenue derived from the employment of illegal aliens. The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson, Southern District of Texas, along with Robert Rutt, special agent in charge ...

May 24, 2012

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More Than Half of Americans With Individual Health Insurance Fall Below 2014 Standards

According to the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), beginning in 2014 all small group and individual health insurance plans must be sold through state exchanges and meet standards established in the new law. PPACA qualifies state exchange policies as falling into four categories--bronze, silver, gold and platinum. According to actuarial values, a bronze plan (...

May 24, 2012

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DOL Ramps Up Wage and Hour Enforcement

According to recent analyses by national employment law firms, the Department of Labor (DOL) is increasing its enforcement efforts in inspecting for potential violations of the wage and hour provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The results indicate that investigators for the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) are being instructed to seek civil penalties even in a first i...

May 22, 2012

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USCIS Launches Online Immigration System Called USCIS ELIS

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today launched the first phase of its electronic immigration benefits system, known as USCIS ELIS. The system has been created to modernize the process for filing and adjudicating immigration benefits. “Today marks a significant milestone in our agency’s history,” said USCIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas. “We have launched ...

May 21, 2012

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Study of Safety Inspections Yields Surprising Results

A study of random Cal-OSHA inspections on California businesses by Associate Professor Michael Toffel of the Harvard Business School shatters some popular myths about safety and health inspections. One myth is that companies will find and correct safety hazards and other workplace issues just as well on their own as they would if inspected and informed of corrective actions needed. In other wor...

May 19, 2012

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IRS to Publish Final Health Insurance Tax Credit Regulations on May 23

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on Wednesday, May 23, is expected to publish in the Federal Register final regulations regarding health insurance tax credits under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the average tax credit, available to individuals and families who fall within 100 percent and 400 percent of the ...

May 18, 2012

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OSHA Forms Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee

The Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced yesterday that it planned to establish a Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee. The committee will advise, consult with and make recommendations to the secretary of labor and the assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health on ways to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and tr...

May 17, 2012

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Knowledge of the Law Not Relevant to HIPAA Privacy Violation, Court Says

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the conviction of the first person in the United States to be given a prison term for violating the privacy policy of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) without using the information for personal gain. Huping Zhou, a former researcher for the UCLA Healthcare System, argued on appeal that he could not be convicted of a he...

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