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Employer wellness programs: new rule increases maximum permissible reward and also imposes anti-discrimination safeguards

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 4 2013

Last Wednesday, the United States issued a final rule that will impact employer wellness programs starting January 1, 2014. This rule pdf issued by

Resiliere: “to leap or spring back”

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 21 2013

It is not news that stress is a leading cause of ill health, absence and spiraling healthcare costs in both the NHS and the private sector. Research

Depression in the British workforce: not all doom and gloom

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 30 2012

To coincide with European Depression Day 2012, the European Depression Association released the first findings of the Impact of Depression in the Workplace in Europe Audit (“IDEA”), a study into depression in the workforces of seven European countries

Counseling constitutes an ADA-protected medical examination

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 27 2012

Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), employers are restricted as to when and for what reason they may require employees or potential employees to submit to a medical examination

US Supreme Court’s decision on healthcare reform: what employers should know

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 8 2012

The United States Supreme Court recently upheld the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Winter blues or feeling SAD?

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 6 2012

Christmas has been and gone, there’s a hole in my bank account, a few extra pounds around my middle and I’ve failed to keep any of my New Year’s resolutions

Additional recordkeeping under GINA?

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 6 2012

On Friday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced a final rule which mandates that employers retain workplace records so that the agency is able to ensure compliance with the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act’s (GINA) prohibition of employment discrimination based on a worker’s genetic information

A reflection on California's new employment laws, part III

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 21 2011

As previously reported, new laws signed by the Governor will become effective beginning January 1, 2012, and employers should be aware of these new legal requirements including the following

GPs to lose role in long-term sickness management?

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 22 2011

Every employer believes, whether it has any actual experience of the matter or not, that GPs are too willing to sign people off sick

Dismissal of employee for working in second job while on sick leave was unfair. What?

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 27 2011

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled that an employer’s dismissal of an employee for working in a second job while on sick leave from the first was unfair