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Deadline Approaches for Employers to Post Machine-Readable Files on a Public Website

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The July 1st deadline is quickly approaching for non-grandfathered group health plans and issuers to publicly disclose, in accordance with the Transparency in Coverage Final Rules, price information in machine-readable files...more

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Ontario, Canada: New “False Light” Privacy Tort and How It Might Impact Employers

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Yenovkian v. Gulian, 2019 ONSC 7279 is a recent family law decision that is significant beyond the family law context, including in the employment law context.  In this decision, Justice Kristjanson of the Ontario Superior...more

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A Comprehensive Whistleblower Protection for the EU

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On April 23, Kramer Levin reported on the European Parliament’s approved proposal for the adoption of a whistleblower protection directive. On Oct. 7, the Directive on protection of persons reporting breaches of Union law...more

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The Global Repercussions of Local Employment Risks

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While campaigning for President in 1932, Franklin Roosevelt promised a crowd in Pittsburgh that he’d balance the federal budget while cutting “government operations” by 25 per cent. When he returned to Pittsburgh during his...more

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Disclosing an Employee's Medical Condition May Result in an Automatic FMLA Violation

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This is a story about Scott. He has a medical condition affecting his genito-urinary system. In the words of my two-year old, Maggie, this condition sounds yucky. Like other employees with a genito-urinary disorder,...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

New OSHA Rule Effective Next Month – Are Your Drug-Testing Policies Placing You At Risk?

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Certain provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (“OSHA’s”) new reporting Rule, which go into effect on August 10, 2016, implicate employers’ post-injury and post-accident drug-testing policies. As...more

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OSHA Announces New Enforcement Program for Whistleblower Cases

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The “pilot” Severe Violator Enforcement Program will impose more stringent inspection procedures, enhanced settlement provisions, and “public scrutiny” for employers that OSHA deems to have engaged in “egregious behavior and...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: Disclosure of employee litigation in periodic reports: between Scylla and Charybdis?

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A recent case from the 7th circuit, Greengrass v. International Monetary Systems, Ltd., No. 13-2901, decided January 12, 2015, may be useful to keep in mind now that it’s 10-K season. ...more

Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP

Client Alert: Disclosure of Plaintiff’s Status as Undocumented Alien to Prospective Jury Panel Grounds for Mistrial

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In Velasquez v. Centrome, Inc. (No. B247080, filed 1/30/2015) the Court of Appeal, Second District, held that a trial judge’s disclosure to the panel of prospective jurors of plaintiff’s status as an undocumented alien was...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Disclosure of Charging Party's Name in Securities Filing Can Constitute Retaliation Under Title VII

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Publically traded companies are required by law to disclose to shareholders pending legal matters that could materially affect their stock price. According to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, an employer’s disclosure of...more

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Litigation Disclosures Can Constitute Title VII Retaliation

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Here is something to watch out for. Earlier this month, the U.S Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that naming an EEOC claimant in the legal proceedings section of a company’s periodic reports may constitute...more

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Safeguarding a Whistleblower’s Identity

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Everyone knows that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act prohibits retaliation against whistleblowers. It may be less obvious, however, that merely disclosing a whistleblower’s identity can constitute prohibited retaliation. Nevertheless,...more

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Recent Developments in Cases Dealing with the False Claims Act’s First-to-File and Public Disclosure Bars

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The False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-3733, enables whistleblowers—also known as qui tam relators— to file fraud suits on behalf of the United States against private government contractors. With the assistance of qui tam...more

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