Articles by Girish Anand

June 29, 2011

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OSHA Opens Interactive Site for Injury-Illness Reporting Questions

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently unveiled a new interactive web tool to help users determine whether injuries and illnesses are work-related and recordable under the OSHA Recordkeeping rules. The OSHA Recordkeeping Advisor is an interactive tool that simulates an employer's interaction with a Recordkeeping rules expert. The Advisor relies on the users' response...

June 27, 2011

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Massachusetts Mulls Price Controls on Romneycare

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In a convoluted statement, the Massachusetts Attorney General is proposing a variation of price controls on health care in the state. AG Martha Coakley, who famously lost to Scott Brown in the Senate election of 2010, issued a report that recommended "at least setting temporary statutory restrictions on how much prices may vary for comparable services." In other words, she's recom...

June 23, 2011

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Disparate Treatment in Hiring Rampant, Testimony to EEOC Indicates

Deliberate discrimination against job seekers based on their race, sex, age, national origin or other prohibited basis remains a major national problem, a battery of experts told the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) at a Commission meeting yesterday (June 22, 2011). “Intentional discrimination in hiring remains a significant problem,” said EEOC Chair Jacqueline A....

June 22, 2011

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NLRB Publishes Notice of Proposed Rule to Speed Up Union Elections

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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) today (June 22, 2011) is publishing in the Federal Register a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) to amend election rules that will allow for electronic filing and speedier voting time-frames and result-publishing. “Resolving representation questions quickly, fairly and accurately has been an overriding goal of American labor law for more than 7...

June 21, 2011

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OSHA to Publish Proposed Rule Today on Illness, Injury Reporting

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is publishing in the Federal Register today (June 22, 2011) a proposed rule to amend Appendix A in Subpart B of Its Injury and Illness Recording and Reporting regulation. Appendix A contains a list of industries that are partially exempt from maintaining records of occupational injuries and illnesses, generally due to their relatively low...

June 21, 2011

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SCOTUS Hands Wal-Mart Huge Victory, Changes Rules for Class Action Lawsuits

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The U.S. Supreme Court has given the nation's second largest employer a sweeping victory by ruling that a multi-billion-dollar class action discrimination lawsuit cannot proceed because it lacks "convincing proof of a companywide discrimination pay and promotion policy." The suit against Wal-Mart was cobbled together to represent 1.5 million female and minority employees, all clai...

June 18, 2011

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OSHA to Survey 19,000 Businesses to Help Design Future Rules and More

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is asking as many as 19,000 businesses nationwide to participate in its Baseline Survey of Safety and Health Practices to help the agency better shape future rules, compliance programs, and outreach efforts. The voluntary survey will be sent to companies of all sizes and across all industries. Results will be tabulated by the Eastern Rese...

June 17, 2011

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ICE to Send Out 1,000 Notices of I-9 Audits

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced it will notify 1,000 companies nationwide of its intent to audit their full hiring records to determine if they're in compliance with the nation's employment eligibility verification laws. Not only will ICE be examining the companies' I-9 employment verification forms but also all payroll records, copies of immigration filings,...

June 16, 2011

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EEOC to Hold Hearing on '21st Century' Hiring Discrimination

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has been busy investigating and holding public hearings on different types of so-called unintentional discrimination acts in hiring, acts which are based upon employers' use of credit checks, arrest records, and employment status ("The Unemployed Need Not Apply"). Next week the commission announced it will turn its attention to &q...

June 14, 2011

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EEOC Holds Hearing on Leaves of Absense as a Reasonable Accommodation

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), during a recent public hearing, made it clear that companies with policies that dictate the termination of employees who stay on leaves of absence longer than originally specified will be challenged by the commission, probably through lawsuit. For example, if a company allows two years for a leave of absence under the Americans With Disabiliti...

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