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E-Alert Item: Employer Must Pay Attorneys’ Fees In Bias Lawsuit, Even Though Settlement Offer More Generous Than Jury Award

By HR Daily Advisor Staff Sep 1, 2002 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: May 18, 2015

Willie Greene sued his employer Dillingham Construction N.A. Inc. for racial harassment under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act. A jury awarded Greene $490,000 in emotional distress damages, and the trial court ordered Dillingham Construction to pay an additional $1,025,794 in attorneys’ fees. The company appealed the fee award, arguing that it shouldn’t have […]

Health Insurance: HIPAA Privacy Notice Reminder for Small Health Plans

By jessica Apr 11, 2007 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: May 18, 2015

Under the privacy rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), group health plans must remind participants every three years that a privacy rights notice is available on request. For small health plans (those with $5 million or less in annual receipts), the three-year anniversary date is April 14, 2007. The anniversary date […]

Why Are Women Paid Less? Our Readers Talk Back

By Bob Brady Jul 20, 2007 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: Jul 20, 2007

HRDA readers respond to our CEO’s suggestion that the gender pay gap isn’t  decreasing faster because women simply often don’t know how to ask for more. A few Fridays ago, our CEO, Bob Brady, ignited a bit of a firestorm in this space with his column on why … and to what degree … women […]

Taking An Interest Gets Better Results

By Stephen Bruce, PhD, PHR May 5, 2011 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: May 5, 2011

Many times a supervisor faces serious obstacles (real or imagined) in the effective leadership of his or her department. Here are some of the excuses supervisors commonly given along with some solutions: Employees are people with certain specific functions to perform, but they are not machines—they’re people with feelings and emotions. People like to be […]

Safety And Health: Free Fact Sheet Summarizes Revised Respirator Regulations

By HR Daily Advisor Staff Aug 1, 2000 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: May 18, 2015

Cal/OSHA has issued an updated fact sheet outlining changes in its respirator regulations. The rules apply to all workplace respirator use except for tuberculosis protection. The fact sheet outlines the specific elements of a comprehensive, written program for respirator use that must be implemented by employers. As spelled out in the fact sheet, such a […]

Washington Could Be Seventh State to Allow Same-sex Marriage

By John Iekel Jan 27, 2012 Benefits and Compensation

Updated: Jan 27, 2012

Legislation is wending its way through both chambers of the Washington State legislature that if enacted would make Washington the seventh state where same-sex marriage is legal. It could happen: a sufficient number of Senators for passage in that chamber have said they would vote for it if it reaches the Senate floor, and Gov. […]

High Court To Review Administrative Exemption Case

By HR Daily Advisor Staff Jan 1, 2008 Uncategorized

Updated: Jan 1, 2008

In the October 2007 issue of CWHA, we reported on a California appeals court decision finding that claims adjusters for Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. didn’t qualify for the administrative exemption from overtime under California law.1 In particular, the court ruled, the adjusters duties mostly consisted of “production” work, as opposed to work at the policy […]

E-Alert Item: U.S. Supreme Court To Consider Whether Employees’ Fear Of Asbestosis Creates Claim For Damages

By Jennifer Carsen Nov 1, 2002 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: May 18, 2015

The nation’s high court has heard arguments in a case that questions whether railroad employees with the lung disease asbestosis can sue their employer for damages based on a fear of developing cancer from exposure to asbestos—even if the employees don’t have cancer or any symptoms of it. The lawsuit was brought by six retired […]

Employee Complaints: Court Overturns $175,000 Verdict For Policemen Who Claimed Retaliation

By HR Daily Advisor Staff Sep 1, 2000 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: May 19, 2015

Two white male Los Angeles police officers who claim they were transferred in retaliation for complaining about their African-American female supervisor, have lost a $175,000 verdict a jury had awarded them. The federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in overturning the verdict, acknowledged that racial and gender equity issues did arise in the officers’ complaints […]