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How Can You Prove that a Worker’s Injury Is Not Permanent?
This content was originally published in January 2000. For the latest in HR management, visit our archives or try our online compliance portal, HR.BLR.com. While Melinda Stark was assembling auto parts at King Auto Plant, she noticed a strong smell of pine-scented cleaning fluid coming from the break room. “What are they doing—cleaning in there?” […]
Minimum Wage: Governor and Lawmakers Reach Deal to Boost California’s Minimum Wage to Highest in the Nation
Bulletin Item: Health Care Privacy Rules Announced
New federal regulations addressing medical privacy rights under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) have been published in the Federal Register. Group health plans generally have until April 14, 2003, to comply with the new rules.
Survey Says: 21% of Companies Are Litigation Free!
Unfortunately, the headline also means that 79% of companies did experience new litigation last year, according to a survey by the law firm Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Here are top findings of interest to HR managers. Fulbright’s Fifth Annual Litigation Trends Survey, billed as the “largest canvas of corporate counsel on litigation and trends,” garnered […]
We’re Surveying Your Employees’ Attitudes Again … and Still at No Cost to You!
By BLR Founder and CEO Bob Brady BLR’s founder announces the 2008 edition of the National Employee Attitude Survey and invites you to find out more about your own workers’ attitudes and how they benchmark to others … at no cost to you. But we’d like you to join us by February 29, so please […]
Sick Leave: Congress Introduces Paid Sick Leave Bill
On March 15, U.S. Senators Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) introduced the Healthy Families Act, legislation that would guarantee seven paid sick days per year to employees working at least 30 hours a week at companies with 15 or more workers. Under the bill, the sick days could be used for the […]
News Notes: IRS Clarifies Pension Amendment Notice Rules
The Internal Revenue Service has issued new regulations which clarify that plan administrators must provide 15 days’ written notice before the effective date of retirement plan amendments which result in a significant reduction in future benefit accrual. The rules apply to both defined benefit and money purchase plans. If some plan participants don’t receive notice […]
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Bulletin Item: U.S. Supreme Court Takes On Age-Bias Case
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether age-neutral policies violate the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) if they adversely impact older workers. The federal appeal courts are split as to whether “disparate impact” claims—which allege that a neutral policy or practice had an adverse, although unintentional, impact on a protected group—are permitted under the […]