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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Remote employees can use these new, secure technologies to get work done productively. Read more »
A district court judge in California temporarily blocked 2018 rules providing exemptions to the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate. Read more »
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 »
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 »