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Americans With Disabilities Act: Supreme Court Says Disabilities Must Substantially Limit Activities Of Central Importance To Daily Life; Practical Impact In California

By Jennifer Carsen Feb 1, 2002 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: May 18, 2015

In the first of three cases the U.S. Supreme Court is considering this term that involve the Americans with Disabilities Act, the high court has issued a ruling that will make it harder for workers to prove they are entitled to reasonable accommodation under federal disabilities law. However, as we’ll explain, the new decision, which […]

IRS Form Amended to Collect Health Outcomes Research Tax

By Todd Leeuwenburgh Jun 7, 2013 Benefits and Compensation

Updated: Jun 7, 2013

Starting July 31, 2013, the IRS will start collecting, and employers will start paying, a new excise tax authorized by the health reform law. This annual fee will be imposed on most insured and self-insured group health plans for the next seven years.   The feds have amended the April 2013 IRS Form 720 (Quarterly Federal […]

Connecticut Court Overturns Ban on Same-Sex Marriages

By HR Hero Oct 13, 2008 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: Oct 13, 2008

Connecticut has become the third state to legalize same-sex civil marriages, which California and Massachusetts already recognize. The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled 4-3 to overturn a lower court ruling that denied same-sex couples the right to marry on the grounds that existing laws allowing civil unions afforded them sufficient rights. Gay and lesbian couples sought […]

E-Alert Item: Medical Marijuana: Fired Employee Goes To Court

By Jennifer Carsen Oct 1, 2002 Uncategorized

Updated: Oct 1, 2002

Gary Ross was offered a job as a lead systems administrator for RagingWire Telecommunications in Sacramento. In connection with taking a mandatory pre-employment drug test, Ross gave the company a copy of his medical prescription for marijuana, which he used to alleviate pain from an old back injury. Ross also told RagingWire that he wouldn’t […]

EEOC Reports Record Highs, Reductions in 2011

By Diversity Insight Jan 15, 2012 Diversity & Inclusion

Updated: Jan 15, 2012

According to the annual Performance and Accountability Report released in November, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) finished fiscal year 2011 with a 10 percent decrease in its pending-charge inventory, the first such reduction since 2002. At the same time, the agency achieved the highest-ever monetary amounts through administrative enforcement, and it received a record […]

Certain religious employers get a reprieve from ACA’s contraceptive mandate from Supreme Court

By Jessica Webb Ayer Jan 2, 2014 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: Jan 2, 2014

On New Year’s Eve, just hours before the healthcare reform (also known as the Affordable Care Act or ACA) contraceptive mandate requirement was supposed to go into effect, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a stay and gave the federal government until Friday to respond to the Court. The stay applies to a limited group […]

‘Back in the Lobby’ Article Draws Reader Fire

By Stephen Bruce, PhD, PHR Apr 22, 2010 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: Apr 22, 2010

By Steve Bruce, Editor, HR Daily Advisor Just My E-Pinion Our headline in a recent issue of HR Daily Advisor—"He’s back … in the lobby … with a gun"—was calculated to attract attention; that’s what headlines do. But not the kind of attention we attracted. A number of readers were upset by the headline and […]