Women deserve the same compensation for doing the same work as men. The concept is simple and fair: equal pay for equal work. It is also the law.
Nevertheless, pay disparities persist across industries and geographies,...more
8/7/2018
/ Civil Rights Act ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Equal Pay Act ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Health Care Providers ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Pay Gap ,
Risk Management ,
State Labor Laws ,
Title VII ,
Wage and Hour
Many of us have become comfortable with the convenience of logging into our laptops or smartphones using a fingerprint scan in lieu of remembering yet another password. We are familiar with television and movie portrayals of...more
3/16/2018
/ Biometric Information ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Retention ,
Data Storage Providers ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Employee Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Encryption ,
New Legislation ,
Notice Requirements ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Private Right of Action ,
Right to Privacy ,
Standard of Care
The highest state court in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts issued a decision yesterday announcing that handicapped employees who have been prescribed medical marijuana may be entitled to a reasonable accommodation under the...more
7/19/2017
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Department of Transportation (DOT) ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Drug Testing ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Hiring & Firing ,
MA Supreme Judicial Court ,
Medical Marijuana ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Undue Hardship ,
Zero Tolerance Policies
Healthcare institutions have a moral and legal obligation to promote patient safety as an essential component of patient care. Supervisors and managers must be supportive of their staffs while remaining vigilant about the...more
8/12/2015
/ Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) ,
Defamation ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Health Care Providers ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Hospitals ,
Jury Awards ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Nurses ,
Popular ,
Reinstatement ,
Retaliation ,
Unions ,
Wrongful Termination
The long-term-care industry depends on shift workers to provide patient care 24 hours per day, seven days per week. But even experienced and sophisticated employers can find the application of state and federal labor and...more
Employers learned long ago that it’s wise to establish written policies which set forth the standards of conduct expected of their employees. These employers also know that the policies may not simply sit on a shelf (or on an...more