Home Depot is Charged with Occupational Safety and Health Violations Home Depot is a large and very well known company. It is very surprising to discover one of it’s sites to fail OSHA inspection. It is critical that large as well as small companies and employers abide by the workers safety and health measures […]
CDHP: Consumer Driven Health Care; A Benefit for Both Employers and Their Employees Many employers are switching or may be thinking about switching employee health plans to the consumer driven health plan which decreases expenses of presenting health benefits. The appeal to consumer driven health plans is smaller premiums. However, it is still important to […]
3 Labor Law Violators Pay a Heavy Fee Recently, the Division of Labor Standards punished three employers who failed to comply to the labor laws. Total cost in insufficient pay, interest, hardship, and penalties for illegality of min. wage, pay for extra hours of work, compensation, documentation, and further labor laws. Employers have […]
The year 2009 marks the lowest level of total recorded work-site injuries and illnesses since 2003. Incident rates declined to 3.6 cases per 100 employees from 3.8 in 2008. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released key findings of the Occupational Injury and Illness Survey. This is great news for Queens NY, Brooklyn NY, Manhattan […]
The Occupation Safety and Health Administration provides advising to small and medium sized businesses free of charge! Its focus is on high hazard sites where a workplace injury may occur which then ultimately drives up the cost of your NY Workers Compensation Insurance, or your NJ Workers Compensation Insurance cost. Your business can be located […]
10 Most Common Occupational Safety and Health Measures for 2010 The Federal United States Department of Labor (OSHA) lists the 10 most common reported work site/occupational safety and health standards discovered after inspection. There are detrimental consequences; such as Net Income Loss that can damage your company if any of the following risks happen […]
Technology: Advancement in Ethernet Connections Higher performance computer network connections are on the rise. The The College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara is in the process of developing accelerated ethernet computer connections. According to the recent paper issued by the University titled Tomorrows Internet 1000’s Time Faster these connections will have a speed rate […]
Rising Cost of Workers Health Care Bad news if you are a small employer who purchases NY Health Insurance or NJ Health Insurance. According to the Bureau of Labor & Statistics over the past five years, NY health insurance premiums and NJ health insurance premiums have increased by 27%. However, employee’s contributions have climbed by […]
Yup, me too! I had no idea what an ACO was, or why I should care. After doing a little research I thought I would share with you why they may become very important in a Macro kind of way. Firstly A.C.O stands for ” Accountable Care Organizations” , which usually ends up the antithesis […]