Want yet another admonition not to be too focused on implementing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to the exclusion of other duties? Here's one from Edward F. Harold of Atlanta-based law firm Fisher & Phillips.
Harold's concern is that HR pros will give too little attention to matters taken quite seriously by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and that bad things may happen as a result. So he offers a checklist to remind those in HR of their full range of duties. He uses retail work as his template. Here is our abbreviated version.
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Dan Cook
Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.
