The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has again delayed enforcement of the Red Flags Rule. Enforcement was previously delayed until November 1, 2009, but has now been delayed until June 1, 2010.

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A cook at an Indiana restaurant suffered a job-related back injury, and a workers' compensation board said the employer must pay for a medical procedure. What makes this news?

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With hundreds of thousands of laid-off employees soon to lose a federal subsidy of their COBRA health insurance premiums, more lawmakers are introducing legislation to extend and increase the subsidy.

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You are on the phone with a colleague and suddenly you feel as though you are speaking to yourself. You hear in the background the clicking of a computer keyboard, and you realize that you've lost the other person's attention. They are surfing the Internet or, more likely, checking their Facebook or Twitter account.

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Imagine a supervisor making an inappropriate remark to one of his direct reports in an after-hours conversation. If he made the comment verbally, and the employee then reported it to the supervisor's employer, any resulting litigation would have involved the usual "he said, she said" situation, in which lawyers would have challenged the employee's credibility.

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As a reminder, employers should be using the most recent Form I-9 found at www.uscis.gov/i-9, which includes the forms most recent version from August 2009. In addition, USCIS has indicated that the prior version (February 2, 2009) is also acceptable. These versions contain the revised list of documents acceptable for employment verification. Employers should use the new Form I-9 for newly hired employees as well as for any needed revivification of work authorization.

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The H1N1 pandemic is raising concerns about people reporting to work sick and spreading the disease. The pandemic has given momentum to Congressional efforts to enact legislation that would guarantee paid sick days to tens...

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An engineer who was dismissed for poor performance two years ago allegedly returned to his former workplace in Orlando, Florida, the morning of Friday, November 6, and shot and killed one person while wounding five others, authorities said.

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Business interests wasted little time in criticizing a health care reform bill passed this month by the House, and they moved just as swiftly to press their case in the Senate, where a key committee has been more receptive to employer demands yet is unlikely to vote a measure before year’s end.

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