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Employers must begin complying with the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act (GINA) on November 21, 2009. GINA was enacted to prohibit discrimination on the basis of genetic information with respect to health insurance and employment. Are your policies and practices in line with the soon-to-be-effective GINA provisions?
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Employers that sponsor foreign nationals under the H-1B and L-1 visa categories should be prepared to receive "unannounced" visits in the coming months from US Citizenship and Immigration Services' (USCIS) Office of Fraud Detection and National Security and Records Verification (FDNS), confirmed attorneys speaking at the Federal Bar Association's Fourth Annual Program on What You Should Know About Workplace Enforcement and Immigration, held November 9, 2009. The purpose of these visits, which as of now are random, is to verify the existence of the employer-petitioner and the H1-B/L-1 beneficiary, and validate the information provided on the nonimmigrant petition, which is then gathered into FDNS's fraud detection database, stated Michael F. Turansick of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Lowey, LLP.
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The Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division has put together "Question and Answer" documents for both the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) relating to the Pandemic Flu. The documents provide information on common issues when employees get the flu and its affect on wages and hours worked and its affect on wages and hours and job-protected leave.
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The Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued commonsense fact sheets that employers and employees can use to promote safety during the current H1N1 influenza outbreak, the agency announced. The fact sheets inform employers and workers about ways to reduce the risk of exposure to the 2009 H1N1 virus at work. Separate fact sheets for health care workers, who carry out tasks and activities that require close contact with 2009 H1N1 patients, contain additional precautions.
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A study by researchers at Harvard and McGill Universities finds the United States far behind other economically successful nations in terms of adopting policies that support workers and families. The study finds that 14 of the world's 15 most competitive countries provide paid sick leave, 13 guarantee paid leave for new mothers, 12 provide paid leave for new fathers, 11 provide paid leave to care for children's health needs, eight provide paid leave to care for adult family members, and seven guarantee breastfeeding breaks to nursing mothers on the job. At the federal level, the United States offers its workers none of those supports.
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Decades into the era of two-earner households, the virtues of family-friendly policies are all but universally assumed in the corporate world. But now new research suggests serious potential pitfalls for women in those policies, hazards stemming from persistent misconceptions about women's susceptibility to conflicts between their family commitments and workplace responsibilities. A study in the current issue of The Academy of Management Journal reveals that bosses generally perceive women workers to have more family-work conflict than men, even though this isn't the case. And this belief, mistaken though it is, leads supervisors to take a negative view of women employees' suitability for promotion.
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Consumer prices as measured by the Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers index (CPI-W) increased 0.1 percent in October, prior to seasonal adjustment, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported November 18. The CPI-W, which is used as an escalator in union contracts and in federal entitlement payments, registered an October level of 211.549, which was 0.3 percent lower than in October 2008. Consumer prices as measured by the All Urban Consumers index (CPI-U) also rose by 0.1 percent in October, prior to seasonal adjustment. The October level of 216.177 was 0.2 percent lower than in October 2008. On a seasonally adjusted basis, both the CPI-W and CPI-U rose 0.3 percent.
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Real average hourly earnings fell 0.1 percent from September to October, seasonally adjusted, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Wednesday, November 18. A 0.3 percent increase in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) slightly offset a 0.3 percent increase in average hourly earnings for production and nonsupervisory workers.
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