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...]
California Mandates Paid Sick Leave for Most Employees
With some limited exceptions, California employees are now entitled to accrue and take paid sick leave. California is the second state in the nation to mandate paid sick leave for its employees; Connecticut was the first. But unlike in Connecticut, California’s new paid sick leave law applies to employers of every size. Here’s how California’s new paid sick leave law works: To accrue paid sick leave with a particular employer, an employee must work for at least 30 days in a twelve-month period … [Read more...]
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