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		<title>EEOC REVISES POSTER TO REFLECT GINA AND ADAAA</title>
		<link>http://dmeclegal.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/eeoc-revises-poster-to-reflect-gina-and-adaaa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johngarner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has revised its “Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law” poster. This new version reflects current federal employment discrimination law (including the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008). The poster was also revised to add information about the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, which is effective November [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dmeclegal.wordpress.com&blog=2946345&post=318&subd=dmeclegal&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Democratic Leadership Unveils Health Reform Bill.  What Happens Next?</title>
		<link>http://dmeclegal.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/senate-democratic-leadership-unveils-health-reform-bill-what-happens-next/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johngarner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 18, 2009, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) released the Senate Democratic leadership’s version of a comprehensive health reform bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590). This legislation is the product of weeks of work by the Senate leadership to combine the health care reform bills passed by the Senate Health, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dmeclegal.wordpress.com&blog=2946345&post=313&subd=dmeclegal&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Employers Respond to GINA Ban on HRAs</title>
		<link>http://dmeclegal.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/employers-respond-to-gina-ban-on-hras/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johngarner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[wellness programs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A coalition of employer organizations believe the Genetic Information Non-discrimination Act (GINA) threatens to ban the use of most health risk assessments (HRAs) in wellness programs. If you share their concerns, you can act by November 30 or as soon as possible after that to submit comments about GINA’s interim final regulations.
To assist employers in drafting comments, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dmeclegal.wordpress.com&blog=2946345&post=300&subd=dmeclegal&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HOUSE PASSES HEALTH CARE REFORM</title>
		<link>http://dmeclegal.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/house-passes-health-care-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johngarner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late in the night on November 7, 2009, the House of Representatives passed its version of health care reform.  If the Senate can pass health care reform legislation, it will be up to a conference committee to work out differences between the two versions.
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		<title>HHS EXPANDS HIPAA PENALTIES UNDER THE HITECH ACT</title>
		<link>http://dmeclegal.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/hhs-expands-hipaa-penalties-under-the-hitech-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johngarner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[HIPAA Privacy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On October 30 the Department of Health and Human Services published an interim final rule to conform HIPAA’s enforcement regulations to the new statutory revisions required by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (the HITECH Act), which was enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dmeclegal.wordpress.com&blog=2946345&post=296&subd=dmeclegal&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NEW CALIFORNIA WORKERS’ COMPENSATION LAWS</title>
		<link>http://dmeclegal.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/new-california-workers%e2%80%99-compensation-laws/</link>
		<comments>http://dmeclegal.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/new-california-workers%e2%80%99-compensation-laws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johngarner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a few new laws affecting workers’ compensation.

AB 361 provides that, regardless of whether an employer has a medical provider network, an employer that authorizes medical treatment shall not rescind or modify the authorization for medical treatment that has already been provided. 
SB 186 repeals the December 31, 2009 sunset date [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dmeclegal.wordpress.com&blog=2946345&post=293&subd=dmeclegal&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MILITARY FAMILY LEAVE EXPANDED</title>
		<link>http://dmeclegal.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/military-family-leave-expanded/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johngarner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On October 28, 2009, President Obama signed H.R. 2647 (the Fiscal Year 2010 National Defense Authorization Act) into law.  This new law includes two expansions of the recently-enacted exigency and caregiver leave provisions for military families under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA). 

The National Defense Authorization Act expands the exigency leave benefits [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dmeclegal.wordpress.com&blog=2946345&post=290&subd=dmeclegal&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GOVERNMENT MISSES DEADLINE FOR MENTAL HEALTH PARITY REGULATIONS</title>
		<link>http://dmeclegal.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/government-misses-deadline-for-mental-health-parity-regulations/</link>
		<comments>http://dmeclegal.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/government-misses-deadline-for-mental-health-parity-regulations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johngarner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mental Health Parity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When President Bush signed the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA) on October 3, 2008, that triggered a requirement for the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Labor and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to issue regulations no later than October 3, 2009.  Earlier [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dmeclegal.wordpress.com&blog=2946345&post=285&subd=dmeclegal&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Appeals Court Rules on Definition of “Medical Examination”</title>
		<link>http://dmeclegal.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/appeals-court-rules-on-definition-of-%e2%80%9cmedical-examination%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johngarner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[termination of employment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), employers can only require employees to undergo medical exams if the exam is job-related and necessary.  The Appeals Court for the Ninth Circuit ruled a physical capacity evaluation (PCE—also known as a functional capacity evaluation) to be a medical exam, thereby possibly violating the ADA.  This case is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dmeclegal.wordpress.com&blog=2946345&post=283&subd=dmeclegal&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HEALTH CARE REFORM UPDATE</title>
		<link>http://dmeclegal.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/health-care-reform-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johngarner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On October 13, 2009, the Senate Finance Committee passed its version of health care reform.  Now that all five committees with jurisdiction over health care reform have passed legislation, it is up to the leadership in each house of Congress to merge the bills in that house for action on the floor of the house, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dmeclegal.wordpress.com&blog=2946345&post=278&subd=dmeclegal&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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