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Dated: 08-20-2014
With so many states passing legislation permitting the use of marijuana, privacy rights verses workplace rights will present itself on a much larger scale than may have been anticipated. An emerging issue that proponents of legalizing marijuana may not be contemplating, is how the private use of marijuana (be it for medical reasons or recreational use) can be contrary with personnel policies, practices, and procedures in place with their employer in regard to drug testing.
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Dated: 08-19-2014
Last week an administrative law judge for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) held that Boeing Company engaged in a series of unfair labor practices surrounding its recording and photographing of union solidarity marches inside its plants in Everett, Washington and Portland, Oregon. Boeing Co., NLRB ALJ, No. 19-CA-90932 (May 15, 2014). The dispute arose during the fall of 2012 when employee members of the engineers union were negotiating a new contract with the company.
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Dated: 08-18-2014
Acting as a frontline workplace fiduciary for your company’s 401(k) plan should be an exciting and rewarding experience. The best run retirement plans have one common element: the plan fiduciaries fully understand their roles and implement proven practices that have evolved through years of legislative, regulatory, court rulings and industry best practices.
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Dated: 08-20-2014
Today, the federal court for the District of Oregon struck down Oregon's 2004 state constitutional amendment defining marriage as solely between one man and one woman. Oregon now becomes the latest state to recognize same-sex marriages performed within its own borders.
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Dated: 08-19-2014
While many people wonder if the Affordable Care Act eliminates the need for COBRA, COBRA is actually a separate law that predated the ACA. ACA regulations do not modify the COBRA law in any way. Now that we’ve made it past the first Marketplace open enrollment period, the ongoing need for COBRA is even more apparent for these four reasons:
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Dated: 09-03-2014
Rocked by soaring costs, including skyrocketing increases in health insurance premiums, employers are desperate to manage and, hopefully, limit whatever costs they can. Many employers have begun to look to the lifestyle choices of their employees and how those choices might influence their cost of doing business. One lifestyle choice with hugely adverse effects, not just on the cost of health insurance but also on the business itself, is smoking and the use of other tobacco products.
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Dated: 08-20-2014
The terms compliance and ethics are so closely related that we sometimes assume the functions not only overlap, but are actually one in the same. The Compliance department and the Ethics department may sometimes be headed up by a single individual. Although compliance and ethics could be viewed as intersecting circles, there is a clear divide. One quick way to visualize the difference is to consider: “What issues keep the compliance officer tossing and turning at night vs. what robs the ethics officer of sleep?”
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Dated: 08-22-2014
Singapore Ministry of Manpower (MOM) had made public their intentions of changes to the regulations governing the employment of Employment Permit (EP) holders. As per the new rules:
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Dated: 07-28-2014
It’s estimated that at least a half a million American college students hold unpaid internships every year. About 48% of all internships last year were unpaid, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Over 38 percent of internships in the for-profit sector were unpaid.
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