Many San Francisco workers will receive their full salary for six weeks after the birth or adoption of a child, thanks to a new law passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. San Francisco is the first city in the nation to mandate fully-paid parental leave. The San Francisco law closes the gap left by California’s parental leave mandate. Under California law, employees who have paid into the state disability insurance fund may take up to six weeks of leave to bond with a new child. … [Read more...]
Switch to ICD-10 Not A Cure-All For Healthcare Fraud
The World Health Organization is the public health arm of the United Nations. Since 1948, WHO has been responsible for updating the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a worldwide system for collecting, processing, classifying and processing statistics about diseases. The most recent version of the ICD is ICD-10, or tenth edition, which WHO published in 1999. The U.S. Center for National Health Statistics adapts the ICD to create the ICD-CM, which is used by U.S.-based healthcare … [Read more...]
California Employers Cannot Avoid Paying Overtime To Commissioned Employees By Shifting Timing of Commission Payments
California protects employee working conditions in the state through a broad set of laws, rules and regulations. California employers must pay their employees a minimum hourly wage and one-and-a-half times the minimum wage for overtime work of more than 8 hours in a day or more than 40 hours in a workweek. Certain exceptions apply to California’s overtime pay rules, however. One important exception is for employees who are paid a commission. This exception is spelled out in two different wage … [Read more...]
Feds take strong action to protect whistleblowers from overzealous confidentiality agreements
Many companies require their employees to sign confidentiality agreements that prohibit the employees from disclosing non-public information about the company to outsiders. In general, these confidentiality agreements aim to protect a company’s proprietary information that gives it an advantage over its competitors; things like trade secrets, inventions, customer lists and strategic plans. Recently, however, a growing number of companies have included language in their confidentiality … [Read more...]
Federal Court Strikes Down Arbitration Provision That Sought To Ban Employee Class Actions
Arbitration provisions are everywhere. If you own a cell phone, use a credit card, or subscribe to cable or satellite TV, odds are very high that your contract with those companies contains an arbitration clause. Your employment agreement may very well have an arbitration clause too. Your car loan? The vacation you just booked with an online travel site? All are likely to have an arbitration clause buried somewhere in the fine print. According to a three-part series published in The New York … [Read more...]
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