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. The San Francisco paid parental leave ordinance makes San Francisco 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 … [Read more...]
Upcoding in Medical Billing: Why the Switch to ICD-10 Is Not a Cure-All for Healthcare Fraud
The switch to ICD-10 was expected to make upcoding in medical billing harder. First, some background: 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. How ICD Codes Are Used … [Read more...]
California Commission Pay Laws: Employers Cannot Avoid Overtime by Shifting Commission Timing
California commission pay laws are part of a broad set of laws, rules and regulations the state uses to protect employee working conditions. 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. The Commissioned-Employee Exception to Overtime Certain exceptions apply to California’s overtime pay rules, however. One important exception is for employees who … [Read more...]
Whistleblower Confidentiality Agreements: Feds Take Strong Action to Protect Employees
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 written whistleblower confidentiality agreements … [Read more...]
Class Action Waiver Struck Down: Court Rejects Arbitration Ban on 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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