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Client Alert: Navigating the EWA Regulatory Landscape

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I. Introduction: EWA on the Precipice - The increasing use of earned wage access (“EWA”) by workers in the United States and around the world has helped to bring financial flexibility to many previously constrained by the...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

OIG Approves Paying Employed Physicians Profits from ASCs Operated by Employer

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On October 13, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued Advisory Opinion 23-07, approving a physician practice’s proposal to pay its physician-employees a portion of the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

OIG Confirms the Broad Protection of Employee Safe Harbor

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Late last week, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”) posted Advisory Opinion No. 23-07 affirming the broad protection available for compensation to employed physicians under the...more

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How many participants is too many for a top hat plan?

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A client recently reviewed a census of participants in its deferred compensation plan and found that the covered group amounted to nearly 15% of its total workforce. Mindful of the need to limit the number of participants in...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

NLRB Distinguishes Between Protected and Unprotected Criticism of Diversity Policies

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In a well-publicized incident in 2017, Google terminated an employee who circulated a memorandum opposing the company’s diversity program. The employee claimed that innate differences between the sexes made females less...more

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Nevada Labor Commissioner Issues Advisory Opinions Regarding Paid Personal Leave Law

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As we previously reported, Nevada has enacted a personal leave law, which, effective January 1, 2020, will require private employers with 50 or more employees in Nevada to provide certain employees working in the state with...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Healthcare Law Update: May 2018

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Enforcement - OIG Issues Advisory Opinion on Provision of Samples by a Device Distributor - On April 30, 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a...more

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Worker Classification in Massachusetts: Uber Drives Attention to Employees vs. Contractors

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Uber Technologies, Inc. continues to fight claims all over the world that it should treat drivers it matches with passengers as employees rather than independent contractors. Since the business of on-demand employment is...more

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NLRB Advice Memo Pulls Together Principles Applied in Evaluating Employer Work Rules and Social Media Policies

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A 2012 Advice Memo from the National Labor Relations Board’s (“NLRB”) General Counsel was recently publicly released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request....more

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