Workers with High Deductibles Curb Health Care Spending

Employees enrolled in high-deductible health plans are more likely to consider cost and quality when selecting nonemergency care, new research shows. Health savings accounts help to motivate cost-conscious spending but go unused... Read more »

Drug Testing of Substitute Teachers Was Lawful

A school district’s mandatory prehire drug testing of substitute teacher applicants did not violate the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.Read more »

Worker Fired for Being One Minute Late Advances FMLA Claim

A tax clerk for Orange County, Fla., who had taken family and medical leave and was fired for being one minute late returning from a break could proceed to trial on her... Read more »

Do Your Employees Have the Flu? Follow These Paid-Sick-Leave Laws

It’s flu season, and if your employees haven’t started calling in sick yet—either due to their own illness or to take care of a family member—they will soon. Time for employers to... Read more »

Technology to Support Remote Workers Evolves

​Remote employees can use these new, secure technologies to get work done productively. Read more »

Courts Block HHS Exemptions from Contraceptive Mandate

A district court judge in California temporarily blocked 2018 rules providing exemptions to the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate. Read more »

Employer Satisfied ADA by Granting Requested Accommodation

A Texas school district met its obligation to engage in the interactive process under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by granting an employee’s only requested accommodation. Read more »

Accurate Job Description Foils Disability Bias Claim

Employers are not required to reallocate or eliminate the essential functions of a job to accommodate a worker’s disability, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held. Read more »
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