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Business owner beware: FLSA compliance and personal liability

Insperity

And if you think insurance can shield you from such expenses, think again. In reality, employment practices liability insurance (EPLI), which may protect a business against claims made by employees in some areas, may not cover wage and hour issues. Supervision and control of work schedules. Authority to hire and fire employees.

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Context and Care vs. Isolate and Control: An Interview on the Dilemmas of Global Mental Heath with Arthur Kleinman

Mad in America

Just being Asian-American and eating a diet that is informed by the wonderful traditions in Korea, China, and Japan means that either the whole family changes its orientation to food or the person with hypertension is going to be, in a sense, left out. Insurance for mental health care generally is extremely important. Generally, not.

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Enlarging the Treatment Lens for Postpartum Depression

Mad in America

Additionally, since the mother must receive the drug under medical supervision for a period of 60 hours, she cannot function as the primary caregiver for her infant. Zurzuvae’s cost is estimated to be $16,000 for the 14 days and it is still not known if insurance will cover it.

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Conveying Hope, Empowering Teens: An Interview With Jessica Schleider

Mad in America

In grad school, I had the best health insurance I’ve ever had in my whole life. And right after one of the supervised meals, which is an important part of eating disorder treatments, one of the other patients in the clinic asked me, “What made you try your fear food today?” And I was in this intensive outpatient program.

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Mortification Week: the winter party, the wet socks, and other stories to cringe over

Ask a Manager

The office was totally empty, but there was one other person, a graduate student (who I do not supervise), who had also, unbeknownst to me, come in to work that day. Back when I was first out of school I had an interview with an insurance company. I decided I wanted to do some ice skating first. The drinking.

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a rogue admin, a silent snacker, and more

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Our organization has an employee at a satellite office, Jane, whose job description clearly states she that supervises no one; she is administrative support staff. I am now only a month away, so since they told him that he should be okay to take off, I purchased flight, hotel, and tickets for a Broadway show (about $1700) without insurance.

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our holiday party excludes people with mobility issues, turning down training requests, and more

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Said person has taken over leading/supervising work related social committees — holiday parties, summer potlucks, that sort of thing. Both times, I chalked it up to both of them being new and being distracted by the food-restricted people. (We The food is great, the place is clean, but a dive).