The National Labor Relations Board announced on March 12, 2013, that it will not seek en banc rehearing of Noel Canning v. NLRB et al., Nos. 12-1115 and 12-1153 (D.C. Cir. Jan. 25, 2013), in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held that the President’s January 4, 2012 recess
March 2013
Health Care Industry Group Testifies at Congressional Hearing on Shortage of Healthcare Workers
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Posted in Uncategorized
On March 14, 2013, a member of the American Health Care Association (AHCA) testified before the House Education and Workforce Committee’s subcommittee on Workforce Protections hearing on the critical shortages of mid-level caregivers in the nation’s skilled nursing centers and its impact on the economy. Click here for more information from Jackson Lewis’ Immigration Blog.
Deceptive Home Health Aides Not Entitled to Reinstatement, Federal Court Rules
By Ana C. Shields on
Posted in Labor
Home health aides who deceived their employer about their intention to strike created a reasonably foreseeable risk of imminent danger to their patients and were not entitled to be reinstated to their original patients and schedules after they were given new assignments following the strike, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has…
False Claims Act Allegations Settled for $2.3 Million
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Posted in Uncategorized
The Department of Justice has announced a $2.3 million settlement for alleged double billing violations of the False Claims Act. According to the DOJ press release, a children’s genetic services clinic agreed to pay $1.5 million and a radiology group that read and interpreted genetic ultrasounds for the clinic agreed to pay an additional $800,000 to settle the alleged FCA violations. The settlement resolved a qui tam case brought by the radiology group’s former revenue manager and coding compliance officer under the FCA.
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Facebook Photos Reveal Employee Dishonesty, Termination of RN on FMLA Leave by Medical Center Proper
By Ana C. Shields on
Posted in Discrimination Claim Risk Avoidance, Privacy
An RN on FMLA leave lawfully was discharged from her position at Detroit Medical Center when her employer discovered she had misrepresented her alleged medical condition in her FMLA leave request, a federal district court has determined. Lineberry v. Detroit Medical Center, et al., Case No. 11-13752 (E.D. Mich., S.D. Feb. 5, 2013). Although…