The much anticipated “breach notification” rule was recently
published by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of
Civil Rights (OCR). As required by the provisions of the Health
Information Technology for Economic... Read more »
An automotive employee was not entitled to compensation under the Fair
Labor Standards Act or California law for commuting time and time spent on
preliminary activities, the federal appeals court in San Francisco held... Read more »
In the current economy, many employees are losing their jobs from company-wide reductions in force. While this topic is never pleasant, there are some basic paycheck rules companies should follow in Texas... Read more »
Each day, U.S workers head to their respective jobs in order to complete the tasks required by their employers and gain compensation to support themselves and their families. Some people head to... Read more »
The workaholic view of time management enables the addition of new clients, catching up on your to-do list; finishing back reading and learning about new developments in your industry. Properly viewed, however,... Read more »
Once depicted as a trendy social media experiment, Twitter has officially arrived. From cell phone integration to CNN broadcasts, we can no longer escape the fact that Twitter is not a passing... Read more »
The public is mad as hell at AIG (and other recipients of Federal bailouts) who have handed out lucrative retention bonuses. One might wonder, are incentives appropriate in such difficult times? Read more »
Employee satisfaction is a key driver of employee engagement, and employee engagement in turn is a key driver of customer satisfaction and loyalty, employee retention, productivity, sales, overall organizational performance and profit.... Read more »
Employers and employees alike have numerous misconceptions about the enforceability of non-competition agreements. Employers mistakenly believe that the more restrictive the agreement is for the employee, the better it is ... Read more »
On August 19, 2009, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the U.S.
Department of Justice announced a settlement agreement with UBS regarding certain
accounts held at the bank by U.S. persons. The offshore voluntary
disclosure... Read more »
