Labor and Employment Laws and Developments in Healthcare Industry
The NLRB Acting General Counsel’s latest effort to limit the effect of arbitration awards, even though they may be acceptable to the charged party against whom related unfair labor practice charges are pending before the agency (often the employer), has come up short.
The NLRB Acting General Counsel’s 2011 “Guideline Memorandum Concerning Deferral to Arbitral…
Healthcare employers may be interested in a recent post on the Jackson Lewis LLP Workplace Resource Center addressing lawful investigation rules. Click here for more information.
The following note from our colleagues at the Jackson Lewis LLP Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report may be of particular interest to healthcare employers. Click here to be transferred directly to the link.
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.
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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The U.S. Department of Labor reportedly has recouped $2.1 million dollars in back wages as a result of an ongoing enforcement initiative which, to date, involved investigation of 200 residential care facilities within the jurisdiction of its North Carolina District Office. The DOL reported finding “widespread violations” of the Fair Labor Standards Act minimum wage…
Employers may be interested in an article that appeared recently on our Firm’s website discussing the impact of the Supreme Court’s recent decision on employers. Click here.
The National Labor Relations Board has just announced it has postponed the effective date of its new rule mandating the workplace posting of an official Notice of Employee Rights under the National Labor Relations Act. The rule had been scheduled to go into effect on November 14th. Now, the rule will be effective on January…
A group of nurses and nurses’ assistants alleging that their employer, a health care system, violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by failing to compensate them for interrupted meal periods filed a collective action in behalf of themselves and other similarly situated employees. Usually, at the early, “notice” stage a court only requires a preliminary…
Washington has become the first state in the nation to require protection for healthcare workers who handle, administer and dispose of chemotherapy drugs.
This new law addresses concerns raised both by OSHA and NIOSH, which recommend that precautions be taken when handling these drugs. OSHA calls for development and implementation of a “Hazardous Drug Safety…
