AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice - Reimbursement Audits and Appeals
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HealthLaw HotSpot - A Look at Alternative Reimbursement Models in Value-Based Care
The Important and Thriving Role of Private Medical Practices
Value-Based Care and Its Impact on Providers
The Year Ahead: Litigation Hot Spots at a Glance
Teleworking: Amazing or amazingly complex?
(Video) Reimbursement of College Tuition and Fees After COVID-19
Value-based health care: compliance infrastructure
K&L Gates Triage: 340B Eligibility - Hospital Covered Entities
Value-based health care: fraud & abuse laws
Value-based health care: issues for pharmaceutical companies
Condo Water Invasion: Potential Medical Liability?
On May 31, 2024, the Governor of Colorado signed House Bill 24-1324, titled “Attorney General Restrictive Employment Agreements,” putting into place a law to toughen protections for employees who are subject to abusive...more
Are New Jersey employers required to reimburse employees for business-related expenses? The Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, recently considered whether an employer’s failure to reimburse an employee for...more
When nonexempt employees use their personal vehicles to provide delivery services, how much must their employer reimburse them to ensure that the employees are paid at least the minimum wage required by the Fair Labor...more
CDF invites you to attend a complimentary one-hour and 15-minute webinar of valuable insights, updates on California wage and hour laws, and essential best practices for employers to ensure compliance and minimize potential...more
As remote work becomes increasingly prevalent, one crucial aspect that employers and employees must address is the allocation of expenses incurred in a remote work setup. In the evolving landscape of work, the shift towards...more
A Hong Kong court decision holding an employer liable for various payments and benefits owed to a former employee highlights the importance of making prompt payment of all amounts due upon termination of employment....more
We are a small company based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that allowed some of our employees to work remotely during the pandemic. When we recently announced our plans to call employees back to home base in Milwaukee, we received...more
Starting January 1, 2024, a new Illinois law will require employers in the greater Chicago metropolitan area with 50 or more covered employees within one mile of a fixed-route public transit service to provide their full-time...more
California employers must reimburse workers for their COVID work-from-home expenses, a panel of the state’s Court of Appeal has ruled. To accomplish his duties for his employer, Paul Thai required Internet access, telephone...more
Recent developments raise questions about post-pandemic voluntary work-from-home agreements and reimbursements for work-at-home expenses. This is our monthly blog providing California employers with wage and hour compliance...more
The California Court of Appeal for the First Appellate District recently issued its opinion regarding business-related expenses in Thai v. International Business Machines Corporation. The Court found that expenses incurred by...more
California courts recently issued two guiding decisions relating to COVID-19: In Thai v. International Business Machines Corp., 2023 Cal. App. LEXIS 526, the Court of Appeal held that a government mandate to work from...more
In Thai v. International Business Machines (IBM) Corp. No. A165390 (July 11, 2023), the Court of Appeal of the State of California First Appellate District, held that under Labor Code section 2802(a), the employer is required...more
On the heels of a rare win for employers regarding COVID-19 liability, a California appellate court was quick to remind employers in the state that there’s no shortage of pandemic-related requirements still in place. This is...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The California Court of Appeal found an employer liable under Labor Code section 2802 for employee work-from-home operating expenses, despite Governor Gavin Newsom’s 2020 stay-at-home order, which precluded...more
During the pandemic, when all non-essential workers were required to work remotely, several questions arose about who should pay for the work-from-home expenses. Earlier this month, the California Court of Appeal determined...more
The California Court of Appeal held in Thai v. International Business Machines Corp. that even if government-mandated stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic were an intervening cause of employees working from home...more
On July 11, 2023, the California Court of Appeal in Thai v. IBM held that whether an employer is obligated to reimburse expenses incurred by an employee working from home turns on whether the expenses were a direct...more
The federal government recently announced the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, and the three-year pandemic finally appears to be in our rearview mirror. Originally published in Law360 - June 1, 2023....more
In April, the Illinois Department of Labor published new regulations regarding the expense reimbursement requirements in Section 9.5 of the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act. The Act requires an employer to reimburse...more
The Illinois Department of Labor (IDOL) has published amended regulations, effective April 14, 2023, to Illinois’ Wage Payment and Collection Act (IWPCA). The amended regulations impact Illinois’ robust expense reimbursement...more
On October 1, 2022, Canada published two proposed Regulations under the Canada Labour Code (CLC) and requested comments by October 31, 2022, via a new embedded commenting feature....more
Time for Compliance in an Altered Work Environment - As companies continue settling into their new working environments—remote, hybrid, or fully back in the office—there remain a number of challenges that have stemmed...more
On June 13, 2022, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held in Johnson v. WinCo Foods Holdings, Inc, et al. that class members who were not yet employed by WinCo were not entitled to compensation for the time required to take a...more
California employers have recently experienced a material uptick in lawsuits from employees seeking reimbursement for expenses incurred while working from home. These lawsuits seek a wide variety of expense reimbursement for...more