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Corporate Counsel

Be Consistent When Deciding Which Employees Are Naughty or Nice

While Santa is checking over his list, employers are doing the same with year-end employee evaluations.
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Corporate Counsel

EEOC Gives Health Care Advice for Docs Dealing With Patients' Employers

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is going to the doctor. According to Robin Shea of Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, the organization has published guidance for employees' health care providers with respect to dealing with HIV/AIDS.
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Corporate Counsel

Brad Smith and Microsoft Observe the UN's Day of Persons With Disabilities

This week Microsoft is recognizing the UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities, according to Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer of the company. In a blog post yesterday, he outlined how the company fosters inclusion.
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Corporate Counsel

Time to Check Your Computer Coders' Exempt Status

When company systems are crashing, computer programmers can seem more valuable than the CEO. Luckily for the human resources department and payroll, these employees are often exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act, as well as California law.
1 minute read

Corporate Counsel

EEOC Remains Focused on Systemic Cases, ADA Violations

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently released its annual Performance and Accountability Report, which provided a window into some of the commission's achievements in fiscal year 2015. The report showed that the EEOC, which turned 50 this year, hasn't slowed down.
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Corporate Counsel

Trouble Ahead: Whistleblowers Are Targeting the Healthcare Industry

Mark Neuberger of Foley & Lardner has a caution for employers in the healthcare sector. “There has been a veritable explosion of recent False Claims Act whistleblowers bringing major actions against health care organizations,” he writes.
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Corporate Counsel

Another Year of More Whistleblower Cases for OSHA

Blowing the whistle on a company can be very intimidating, but that hasn't stopped plenty of workers from taking complaints to the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Health and Safety Administration.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Wage-and-Hour Suits Reach Record High in 2015

In recent decades, Fair Labor Standards Act lawsuits have generally been on the rise. And according to an evaluation of federal judiciary data by Seyfarth Shaw, fiscal year 2015 was another whopper for this type of litigation.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

SEC Whistleblowing Update Confirms Focus on Retaliation

The whistleblower program included in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act has kept in-house lawyers and compliance officers busy this year.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Good Advice: Read Vendor Contract Closely, Especially Regarding Employee Benefits

It may be worse than doing the laundry. But it's imperative to closely review any new vendor agreements, especially when it comes to employee benefit plans.
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