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July 16, 2016

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EEOC Publishes Revised EEO-1 Reporting Requirements

On July 14, 2016, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) published a slightly revised proposed rule on W-2 wage reporting requirements on the annual EEO-1 form for companies with 100-plus employees. This past winter the EEOC published a proposed rule that added wage reporting to the existing EEO-1 requirement for data reporting for each job category based on race, sex and ethnicity...

July 14, 2016

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Annual Health Care Spending Reaches $10,000+ Per Person in the U.S.

Health care spending will hit $3.35 trillion this year, or $10,345 per man, woman and child in the United States, a record high, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced July 13. The agency also predicted that growth in health care spending will average 5.8 percent from 2015 through 2025, outpacing growth in the economy, though this year's spending growth is a tad lower ...

July 13, 2016

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OCR Notifies 167 Covered Entities That They're Being HIPAA-Compliant Audited

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR), in charge of enforcing the privacy, security, breach and other HIPAA rules, said yesterday it has notified 167 covered entities that they must submit all papers necessary for a remote "desk audit" within 10 days. "Letters were delivered on Monday, July 11, 2016, via email to 167 health plans, healthcare providers and healthcare clearinghouses," OCR confirmed....

July 13, 2016

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Temporary Workers Now Automatically Included in Bargaining Units, NLRB Rules

After the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling in 2015 that temporary workers are "joint employees" of both their staffing agency and the company where they work, employers feared that the next step would be to include such joint employees automatically in workplace bargaining units during unionization proceedings. As the National Law Review notes on its website, that shoe has now drop...

July 13, 2016

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'Black Swan' Unpaid Interns Case Drawing to a Close, or Not?

The Department of Labor (DOL) has long been cracking down on the use of unpaid interns to do the work of employees, and the most famous case alleging such abuse -- the interns on the movie "Black Swan" who filed a lawsuit for back pay -- may be drawing to a close. Or maybe not. 20th Century Fox, after losing the lawsuit in court and then winning it on appeal, is proposing a settlement that wou...

July 12, 2016

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Another Texas Lawsuit Filed: This One Against OSHA Electronic Reporting

Federal courts in Texas have already been the scene of lawsuits against Obama administration initiatives regarding immigration, the "Persuader Rule" and transgender bathrooms, and now another group is seeking an injunction against the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standard that mandates electronic reporting of injuries and illnesses beginning in 2017. The rule requires e...

July 7, 2016

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States Sue to Block Administration's Transgender Bathroom and Other LGBT Directives

More than a dozen states on Wednesday asked a federal judge in Texas to block initiatives by the Obama administration designed to protect the rights of transgender individuals to use the bathroom of their choice, among other LGBT anti-discrimination provisions. The move came one day after the administration sued in North Carolina to block that state's "bathroom bill" that was designed to thwart...

July 6, 2016

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HHS Redoubles Effort to Fight Opioid Abuse

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell today announced several new actions the department is taking to combat the nation’s opioid epidemic. The actions include expanding access to buprenorphine, a medication to treat opioid use disorder; a proposal to eliminate any potential financial incentive for doctors to prescribe opioids based on patient experience survey questions; ...

July 5, 2016

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First-Ever Business Associate Fine for a HIPAA Violation

Catholic Health Care Services of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia (CHCS) has agreed to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Security Rule after the theft of a CHCS mobile device compromised the protected health information (PHI) of hundreds of nursing home residents, according to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), which enforces t...

July 2, 2016

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Puerto Rico Escapes New Overtime Rule Mandate

Puerto Rico, a U.S. Territory that generally hews to this nation's labor laws, will evade the new overtime exemptions final rule as it scrapes its way out of near financial ruin, having missed its constitutionally mandated sovereign bond payment on July 1. The rule sets the salary threshold for overtime exemption at $47,476 a year. It currently stands at $23,660 a year. Congress, however, has...

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