October 2009
In this Issue:

Labor Law
New Requirements to Protect Health Information

Workplace
Risks in Using Social Networking Sites for Recruiting

Labor Law
Update on the Most Frequent Complaints/Violations

Labor Law Opinion
Continuing Changes to FMLA

New at Cincinnati Time
Enhanced Badge Making Capabilities

Technical Corner
Communication tools that allow your older terminals to talk with new web based software

New Requirements to Protect Health Information

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 changes the privacy and security requirements on Protected Health Information (PHI). Recently the Department of Health and Human Services published the regulations for notifications if a breach occurs. Click here to read a summary of the regulations.
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Risks in Using Social Networking Sites for Recruiting

More employers are relying on social network sites like LinkedIn and Twitter to be the centerpiece of their recruiting efforts. Are they limiting the applicant pool and opening themselves up to discrimination claims? Please click here to see what risks this creates.
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Update on the Most Frequent Complaints/Violations

Terry Henley from the Employers Resource Association provides us with this update about the most common complaints fielded by the Department of Labor. Increasing enforcement along with larger budgets for field inspectors and the emergence of class action lawsuits has created more Wage and Hour activity. Click here for the article. Visit the ERA website at www.hrxperts.org.
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Continuing Changes to FMLA

In this article Tom Eberwein, Association Counsel for the ERA, discusses more changes to the Family and Medical Leave Act. He shares his insight into what he believes is the real motivation behind these changes. The article can be found here.
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Enhanced Badge Making Capabilities

For years we have been making custom and Photo ID badges for those clients that didn’t want to invest the time and resources into purchasing expensive direct to badge printers. We’ve just purchased a printer using a new technology that prints higher resolution graphics, solid colors and true edge to edge badges.  Examples of what this printer can do can be found here. The price for making the badges has not changed; contact your account executive if you would like more information.
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Communication tools that allow your older terminals to talk with new web based software

Are you eager to take advantage of the benefits offered by hosted software but concerned about losing the investment in your current clock terminals? If so, both ADI and NOVAtime offer solutions that allow you to keep your legacy devices. They collect punches through your local network and use your WAN or the Internet to send the information to the designated server or data center. More information on how these work can be found here for NOVAtime clients and here for ADI clients.
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