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3 Dec 2014, 9:46 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Board Certified in Labor & Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, management attorney and consultant Ms. [read post]
12 Apr 2016, 3:50 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The Department has taken an approach to defining “recommendation” that is consistent with and based upon the approach taken by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the independent regulatory authority of the broker-dealer industry, subject to the oversight of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). [read post]
12 Apr 2016, 3:50 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The Department has taken an approach to defining “recommendation” that is consistent with and based upon the approach taken by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the independent regulatory authority of the broker-dealer industry, subject to the oversight of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). [read post]
7 Feb 2019, 3:03 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  In June 2018, an HHS Administrative Law Judge ruled in favor of OCR and required The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (MD Anderson), a Texas cancer center, to pay $4.3 million in civil money penalties for HIPAA violations. [read post]
28 Mar 2023, 4:04 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Anything less robs workers of their hard-earned wages,” said Wage and Hour Division District Director Jamie Benefiel in Columbia, South Carolina. [read post]
29 Feb 2016, 11:58 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Founder and Executive Director of the Coalition for Responsible Healthcare Policy and its PROJECT COPE: the Coalition on Patient Empowerment and a Fellow in the American Bar Foundation and State Bar of Texas, Ms. [read post]
20 Jul 2017, 4:34 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Her experience encompasses leading and supporting the development and defense of innovative new programs, practices and solutions; advising and representing clients on routine plan establishment, plan documentation and contract drafting and review, administration, change and other compliance and operations crisis prevention and response, compliance and risk management audits and investigations, enforcement actions and other dealings with the US Congress, Departments of Labor,… [read post]
3 Mar 2021, 5:32 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
As part of these involvements, she has worked, published and spoken extensively on these and other human resources, employee benefits, compensation, worker classification and other workforce and other services; insurance; health care; workerscompensation and occupational disease; business reengineering, disaster and distress;  and many other performance, risk management, compliance, public policy and regulatory affairs, and other operational… [read post]
2 Feb 2017, 6:04 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Children’s IT asset policies did not apply to devices that accessed or stored ePHI that were managed by the Biomedical Department. [read post]
21 Sep 2022, 6:26 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
“With these four new settlements, the department has now held 20 companies accountable this year for hiring discrimination against students based on their citizenship status,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. [read post]
21 Aug 2015, 6:07 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Consequently, sponsoring employers and their management generally will want to ensure that their plan documents are properly updated to comply with the out-of-pocket maximum and other federal requirements, to require contractual commitments to administer the health plan in compliance with and to report, correct, and indemnify for violations of these requirements in vendor contracts with their health plan insurers, administrators and other vendors, and conduct documented audits to… [read post]
19 Jul 2010, 9:43 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Recent Department of Labor Wage & Hour Division Wage and Hour Division (WHD) guidance reveals the WHD adopts a very broad view of the circumstances under which a when a child with no legal or biological relationship to an employee can qualify as a “son or daughter” for purposes of determining rights of the employee under the FMLA based on the birth , adoption, placement for adoption or need to care for the  child during a serious illness… [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 12:25 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer uses her deep and highly specialized knowledge and experience to help employers and other employee benefit plan sponsors; health, pension and other employee benefit plans, their fiduciaries, administrators and service providers, insurers, and others design legally compliant, effective compensation, health and other welfare benefit and insurance, severance, pension and deferred compensation, private exchanges, cafeteria plan and other employee benefit,… [read post]
4 Jan 2024, 7:57 am by Richard Reibstein Esq.
The Labor Commissioner alleges the defendants unlawfully made prohibited deductions from the drivers’ pay, failed to pay them minimum wage and overtime compensation, did not provide sick time, and failed to provide workerscompensation coverage or make unemployment or disability benefit contributions to the State. [read post]
12 Apr 2018, 7:42 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division (WHD) allowed WHD to recover more than $189 million in back pay from restaurant employers over the past five years, while also evaluating the implications of the new WHD Field Assistance Bulletin: Amendment to FLSA Section 3(m) Included in Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 (FAB) on their ability to legally use tip pools for their tipped employees in light of the enactment by Congress as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act,… [read post]
11 Dec 2015, 10:18 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer uses her deep and highly specialized health, insurance, labor and employment and other knowledge and experience to help employers and other employee benefit plan sponsors; health, pension and other employee benefit plans, their fiduciaries, administrators and service providers, insurers, and others design legally compliant, effective compensation, health and other welfare benefit and insurance, severance, pension and deferred compensation, private… [read post]
24 Jan 2018, 7:56 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Her experience encompasses leading and supporting the development and defense of innovative new policies, programs, practices and solutions; advising and representing clients on routine plan establishment, plan documentation and contract drafting and review, administration, change and other compliance and operations; crisis prevention and response, compliance and risk management audits and investigations, enforcement actions and other dealings with the US Congress, Departments of Labor,… [read post]
19 Aug 2019, 11:58 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  However, the Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division Notice confirms the Wage and Hour Division’s construction of Section 7(r) as applicable only to nursing mothers employed in non-exempt positions under FLSA Section 7. [read post]