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On May 12, 2009, the Pennsylvania Department of Aging and the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, through its Office of Long-Term Living, announced creation of a new advisory council to focus on “quality management of in-home and community services” provided in the Commonwealth.
 
The DoA’s press release, entitled “Council Formed to Advise on Improving Services to [...]

By Eric Sinrod
Google’s Street View panoramic photo mapping service allows users to see street level photographs of specific locations, to take virtual walks while panning, rotating and zooming through cities around the world, and to find shops, restaurants, parks, hotels and other spots in given geographic locations. Nice, right?
Well, not so fast. According to a [...]

 
By Paul Cherner
 
President Obama has announced his intention to nominate 2 union lawyers to be Board members of the NLRB.  They’re Craig Becker and Mark G. Pearce.
 
Becker has been Associate General Counsel for the Service Employees International Union for 17 years and holds the same position at the AFL-CIO.  He has practiced and taught [...]

On Friday, May 1, 2009, Katherine Pearson (Professor of Law, Penn State Dickinson School of Law), as Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Elder Law Section, sent an email message alerting section members that, “[a]s part of a plan to implement Governor Rendell’s proposed budget for the Commonwealth, legislation was introduced on April 28 that [...]

Advances in transportation certainly facilitate the spread of diseases like swine flu. With thousands of people traveling between cities and countries on a every single day basis, whether by planes, trains or automobiles, the speed and breadth of potential transmission is far greater than in early times.
However, technological advances have led to the creation of the Internet, [...]

According to ”IRS: Offshore account holders told fess up to lower penalties” (03/27/09) by Kevin McCoy, published in USA Today, the Internal Revenue Service finally is claiming its tax stake in unreported offshore accounts owned or controlled by U.S. citizens, under severe penalties if voluntary compliance is not forthcoming.
Trying to lure wealthy Americans to disclose assets [...]

By: Paul Cherner
The U.S. General Accounting Office (”GAO”) recently issued a scathing report about the DOL’s handling of FLSA investigations. The title of the report is “Wage and Hour Division’s Complaint Intake and Investigative Processes Leave Low Wage Workers Vulnerable to Wage Theft.”
In response, the new DOL Secretary, Hilda Solis, issued a News Release stating [...]

FindLaw
By Eric Sinrod
In a recent memorandum to heads of federal executive departments and agencies, Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr. has followed President Obama’s earlier lead in instructing that the Freedom of Information Behave be administered with the clear presumption of openness.
According to the Lawyer General, this presumption has 2 important implications.
The first implication is [...]

 
By Eric Sinrod When you think news, do you think of print newspapers? If so, you’re outnumbered, as more people now obtain their news from the Internet, according to a recent survey.
 Whereas only 24% of people reported obtaining their national and international news from the Internet as recently as September, 2007, that number now [...]

 By Paul Cherner There has been a substantial amount of debate concerning the proposed federal legislation entitled the Employee Free Choice Behave (”EFCA”).
In 2007, EFCA was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, but failed to win a cloture vote to end a filibuster  in the Senate.   Labor unions have listed the passage of EFCA as [...]