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Medicare Announces Pay Increases for Psychiatric, Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Providers in Fiscal Year 2015

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/08/14

According to the rules released last Thursday by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Medicare will increase payment to inpatient psychiatric hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities and skilled nursing facilities in fiscal year...

Fifth Circuit Reins In Trend of Expanding ESA Liability for Remote Harm

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/08/14

The Fifth Circuit's recent decision in The Aransas Project v. Shaw, No. 13-40317 (5th Cir. June 30, 2014), clarified two points relating to the element of causation in claims under the Endangered Species Act (ESA)....

OIG updated work plan includes projects focused on CFPB office renovations and employee diversity

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/08/14

The CFPB’s headquarters renovations is now the subject of two ongoing projects of the Office of Inspector General (OIG), according to the OIG’s updated work plan as of July 25, 2014. As the OIG indicates in the work plan, it issued a letter in...

BAG: Kein Sonderkündigungsschutz für Bewerber für den Wahlvorstand

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/08/14

Ein Arbeitnehmer, der für das Amt des Wahlvorstandes für eine geplante Betriebsratswahl kandidiert, ist kein “Wahlbewerber” i.S.d. § 15 Abs. 3, S. 1 KSchG. Mangels Sonderkündigungsschutzes bedarf eine Kündigung des jeweiligen Arbeitnehmers daher...

A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year: President Obama Targets Federal Contractors Again, This Time on Labor Law Compliance

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/08/14

Federal contractors must be straining their necks to see if they have an actual target on their backs. Last week, President Obama signed an executive order that requires federal contractors to disclose labor and employment law violations dating back...

Illegal trafficking of animals is becoming a growing issue in global trade

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/08/14

Efforts by the Obama administration in recent months to focus on illegal trafficking of wildlife and related activities undermining wildlife conservation have not received widespread attention. But that could change in the near future.

Comptroller of the Currency Publishes Guidance on Debt Sales Arrangements and Agreements

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/08/14

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC’s) new Bulletin 2014-37 on Consumer Debt Sales represents the agency’s latest guidance on this topic since providing a written statement a year ago to the Senate Subcommittee on Financial...

Exeter v. Canada (Attorney General): Summary dismissal in the Federal Court of Appeal

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/08/14

On July 4, 2014, Sharlow J.A. provided guidance in Exeter v. Canada (Attorney General) on motions for summary dismissal in the Federal Court of Appeal. In that case, the Crown was seeking summary dismissal on the grounds that Ms. Exeter’s appeal...

OECD Calls for Higher Focus on Outsourcing, IT and Supplier Risk

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/08/14

At the Twelfth Annual Corporate Accountability Conference held in Paris last month, Pierre Poret, Counsellor and Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD), announced that “too...

Proposed Anti-Human Trafficking FAR and DFARS Revisions May Impose Significant New Burdens and Liability on Government Contractors

By EsqSocial Corporation 07/08/14

On September 26, 2012, the Department of Defense (DoD), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the General Services Administration (GSA) proposed revisions to the existing anti-human trafficking Federal Acquisition Regulation...

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