On November 22, 2016, a federal judge blocked the new federal overtime rule that would have made more workers eligible for overtime pay beginning December 1, 2016. U.S. District Judge Amos L. Mazzant, III of the Eastern District of Texas (an Obama judicial appointee) entered a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking […]
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The Revised Form I-9 is Now Available!
On November 14, 2016, the US Citizenship and Immigration Service at long last published the revised version of the Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification. Employers may continue using the current Form I-9 (revision date of 03/08/2013) through January 21, 2017. However, by January 22, 2017, all employers must use the […]
Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Rule Partially Blocked
On October 24, 2016, a U.S. District Court issued a preliminary injunction blocking the majority of the provisions of the Federal Acquisition Regulations and the Department of Labor guidance document implementing the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order. Specifically, the rule requiring federal contractors with high dollar federal contracts […]
Phantom Unqualified Care Leads to Prison Sentence for Physician
A recent Georgia case brings to light the fraudulent practice of physicians allowing insufficiently qualified or completely unqualified persons to perform clinical services and documenting the services as though the physician performed them. The practice may go undetected for a time due to improper password sharing in order to allow […]
OSHA Cites Health Care Employer for Willfully Exposing Workers to Violence
As discussed in a June 2015 Baird Holm Health Law Advisory, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced that it would expand the use of its enforcement resources against health care employers, focusing on (among other things) workplace violence, musculoskeletal disorders related to patient handling, bloodborne pathogens, tuberculosis, and slips, […]