Articles by Girish Anand

April 25, 2016

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DOL Issues New FMLA Poster and Employer Guidebook

The Department of Labor (DOL) today announced that it will be issuing a newer, more user-friendly FMLA (Family and Medical Leave Act) poster, along with a guidebook for employers. The new poster can be used interchangeably with the previous version, but one or the other is mandatory if your company qualifies for FMLA leave for its employees (at least 50 employees within a 75-mile radius). The...

April 23, 2016

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Reality TV Goes Too Far, Films Dying Patient -- Gets Fined $2.2M

This week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it reached a $2.2 million settlement with New York Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) for the egregious disclosure of two patients’ protected health information (PHI) to film crews and staff during the filming of “NY Med,” an ABC television series, without first obtaining authorization from the pa...

April 22, 2016

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Uber Settles Two Lawsuits in Bid to Retain Independent Contractor Model

Ride-hailing giant Uber, currently valued at more than $60 billion, will pay drivers in California and Massachusetts at least $84 million to settle class action lawsuits seeking to overturn the drivers' status as independent contractors. For the time being at least, the settlements mean Uber can continue using its independent contractor business model. The now-settled lawsuits sought full empl...

April 21, 2016

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Hospital Quality Rating System Delayed by CMS

Is that hospital where you just had open-heart surgery a five star or a one star? You'll have to wait until July, at the earliest, to find out. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) yesterday delayed implementation of its hospital quality rating system that was set to debut this week amid questions about the methodology being employed. Members of Congress -- nearly half -- and ...

April 20, 2016

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UnitedHealth Makes It Official: Obamacare Withdrawal Underway

UnitedHealth Group Inc., the nation's largest health insurance firm, has announced it plans to withdraw from all but "a handful" of Obamacare states in 2017 as it faces losses from the program rising to $650 million this year. UnitedHealth currently insures 795,000 Obamacare enrollees in 34 states, but CEO Stephen J. Hemsley says "the shorter-term, higher-risk profile" of most of these enrolle...

April 19, 2016

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OSHA Publishes Final Rule on Retaliation Complaints under Food Safety Modernization Act

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has published a final rule establishing procedures for handling retaliation complaints under the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). The final rule also explains the burdens of proof, remedies and statute of limitations similar to other whistleblower protection statutes that OSHA administers. Section 402 of the FSMA, signed into law Janua...

April 18, 2016

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OSHA Fines to Rise by August 1

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is not the only federal agency that is authorized to "catch up" on inflation by increasing its fines on Aug. 1, but it's the one agency that's been the most vocal over the years, with administrator David Michaels doing the cheerleading for higher penalty levels. This past November President Obama signed into law the Federal Civil Penalti...

April 15, 2016

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UnitedHealth Bailing on Third Obamacare State

This time it's a biggie: UnitedHealth Group Inc., the nation's largest health insurance firm, is pulling out of the Obamacare sweepstakes in Michigan, the largest state so far that it's bailed from in the face of $500 million in yearly losses from the national program. Earlier, the company had withdrawn from Arkansas and Georgia amid threats that it might withdraw from the entire Affordable Ca...

April 15, 2016

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USCIS Launches E-Verify Usage Web Page

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has created a T As of March 31, when the latest statistics were compiled, Georgia led all states in the number of firms signing memoranda of understanding (MOU) with USCIS to use the free E-Verify system. The Peach State was followed by Arizona and California.

April 14, 2016

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AGs Go After Firms with 'On-Call' Worker Policies

Attorneys-general from eight states, including California, have collaborated in an effort to rein in on-call worker policies that leave employees dangling and unable to do anything while waiting for a call to work that might never come. On-call policies demand that employees remain free to be summonsed to work if needed. The AGs sent a letter to 15 companies asking for details on their on-cal...

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