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by Cathy Chandler Until recently, Ontario was the only jurisdiction in Canada without a specific policy dealing with the effect of pre-existing conditions on claims for workers’ compensation. That has now changed. On November 1, 2014, a new policy of the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), Pre-Existing Conditions, came into force. The goal […]
by Matthew A. Goodin, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. Both federal and state law requires employers to pay employees overtime. However, the laws are very different, and each contains many exemptions. Some of the more common exemptions, such as those for professional, administrative, or executive employees, are similar under both laws. But even then, there […]
BusinessWeek magazine ranks the 15 best selling hardcover and paperback business books in November 2009 and gives a short summary. 1.The 50th Law by 50 Cent, Robert Greene. Succeed by conquering your fears. 2. Bounce Back: Overcoming Setbacks to Succeed in Business and in Life by John Calipari with David Scott. Kentucky’s basketball coach on […]
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s (HIPAA’s) privacy rule does not exempt the sharing of information on cyber threat indicators, so HIPAA-covered entities and their business associates may not share protected health information (PHI) for this purpose unless HIPAA otherwise allows it, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned recently.
In a 2010 job satisfaction survey of 5,000 households, the Conference Board found that 45 percent of respondents said that they are satisfied with their jobs, down from 61.1 percent in 1987, the first year the survey was conducted. The report noted that real average household incomes grew at an annual rate of 2.0 percent […]
Who’s the expert on recruiting these days? It might just be Monster, the giant job-finding website. Here’s what their new hiring guide, Finding Keepers, says about successful recruiting: With 40 million jobseekers and thousands of employers using Monster.com, it’s hard to ignore the website’s impact on hiring. So who better to dish out some hiring […]
A jury has awarded $26.6 million to a veteran Miller Brewing Company executive who was fired for sexual harassment after discussing an episode of “Seinfeld.” Jerold Mackenzie told co-worker Patricia Best about a scene in which Jerry Seinfeld can’t remember his girlfriend’s name, only that it rhymes with a female body part. Mackenzie testified that […]
Trade legislation that also extends premium subsidies for health coverage under the Health Care Tax Credit (HCTC) program was signed into law by President Obama Oct. 21. The HCTC was enacted as part of the Trade Act of 2002. As originally enacted, it provided a 65-percent tax credit for qualifying health coverage (including COBRA continuation […]
A University of Connecticut journalism student had an exciting and successful internship at the Winter Olympics thanks to her own research, her college experience, great communication by her employer, and a job description that said “expect the unexpected.” After completing an internship at the NBC affiliate in Hartford two summers ago, senior UCONN journalism student […]
The U.S. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation may start providing new services to help plan sponsors spend less time identifying, locating and corresponding with missing plan participants. The agency is seeking public comment until Aug. 20 on several aspects of administering a missing participants program when terminating individual account plans, according to a June 21 Federal […]