On-Demand Webinar | California Employment Law Update: Tips for Staying Compliant in 2023
COVID-19 Hospice How-To Series | The Results Are In: More Wins for Hospices in HIS Appeals
Hospice Audit Series | It's That Time of Year Again: Quality Data Reporting Determinations Raise New and Recurring Issues
Legal Risk Management Forum: panel highlights
Episode 23: Using “People Analytics” to Make Smart Business and Corporate Culture Decisions
After an extended legislative process, pay transparency requirements are coming for Massachusetts employers. On July 24, 2024, the Massachusetts House and Senate passed a bill requiring employers with over 25 or more...more
On Friday, May 3, 2024, Massachusetts’s Public Health Council (PHC) approved emergency amendments to 105 CMR 130.000 requiring hospitals to report occupancy data to the Department of Public Health. This requirement extends...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) are consulting on proposals to introduce a new financial services regulatory framework on diversity and inclusion (D&I) in the financial...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: After passing the Massachusetts House and Senate with overwhelming support, the Governor is expected to sign a bill requiring employers with over 25 employees in Massachusetts to disclose salary range...more
On October 8, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 54 (SB 54), Fair Investment Practices by Investment Advisers, which requires venture capital firms to collect and report data on the demographic...more
"Oops, [it] did it again." Analogous to Ms. Spears's lyric, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) once again causes a reset across multiple industries with its third iteration of an electronic data...more
As recently discussed on our podcast, section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank Act) amended the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) to require lenders to collect...more
In the UK, the direction of travel is to make businesses fully account for the costs of recycling packaging and set the fees payable by those businesses in a way that encourages reduction and/or recycling of packaging waste....more
Following the Biden administration’s efforts to promote nursing home safety, transparency, accountability and quality, the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a proposed rule governing nursing home...more
On December 8, 2022, Nossaman’s Allison Callaghan, Randy Boyer and Pavneet Singh Mac discussed new California employment laws and regulations, as well as recent case law developments during “California Employment Law Update:...more
As group health plan sponsors, employers are responsible for ensuring compliance with the prescription drug data collection (RxDC) reporting requirements added to ERISA by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (CAA). ...more
With the 2022 California legislative year closed, it is once again time to examine the new legislation that will affect entities operating within the state. Summaries of key legislation are below, with relevant action items...more
COVID-19 remained a substantial obstacle to hospices’ efforts to comply with quality data reporting obligations in 2021. Those challenges resulted in a number of hospices receiving notices of a 2% Medicare payment reduction...more
On September 27, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law SB 1162, which expands California’s existing pay transparency and employee data reporting laws. California joins New York and Colorado, which have...more
On September 27, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1162, which takes effect on January 1, 2023. The new law requires employers to make salary and hourly wage ranges for positions available to applicants and employees,...more
On September 27, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill (SB) 1162 into law. This law builds upon and expands the existing SB 973, a 2020 law, which requires employers with 100 or more employees to submit...more
The General Services Administration (GSA) is scheduled to expand a 2016 rule this November, but faces significant opposition from within its own agency due to questionable data from a pilot program. On June 23, 2016, GSA...more
Each July, the Medicare Administrative Contractors issue notices of a 2% Medicare payment reduction to those providers who did not meet quality data reporting requirements. Those notices have been sent. In this episode, Husch...more
The Department of Defense (DoD) issued a final rule on July 9, 2021, requiring contractors to report annually their total labor hours and invoiced amounts for certain service contracts. Requirement applies to contracts...more
By any measure, 2020 presented novel, life-changing experiences for all of us. The resilience and focus required to endure the seemingly relentless wave of changes have helped to hone the skills of most workplaces and allowed...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing released 16 new FAQs regarding the recently enacted Pay Data Reporting Law, previously summarized here. The new FAQs address several key issues,...more
On November 2, 2020, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) released Frequently Asked Questions providing limited guidance to employers as to how to comply with their obligations for filing employee...more
On August 25, 2020 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued interim final regulations known as CMS-3401-IFC that become effective immediately upon publication in the Federal Register, scheduled for September...more
U.S. issuers (including private investment funds such as hedge, private equity and venture capital funds) must report certain data regarding holdings of their securities by non-U.S. residents to the U.S. Treasury via Form TIC...more
The EEOC released a “Notice of Reinstatement of Revised EEO-1: Pay Data Collection for Calendar Years 2017 and 2018.” We recently reported on the District of Columbia court’s decision in National Women’s Law Ctr. v. Office of...more