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Seattle companies weigh vaccine mandates A Seattle law firm was among the first local companies to require employees to get vaccinated before returning to the office. Author: Ted Land Updated: 9:44 PM PDT July 28, 2021 A Seattle law firm was among the first companies in western Washington to require employees to get vaccinated before returning to the office and is now helping other businesses navigate the same process. “Seeing my own employer take a stand and recognize the importance of keeping employees safe was something that was really important to me,” ...

Did you receive a ‘long-term care’ email from your employer? Here’s what it means to opt-in or opt-out June 14, 2021 at 5:01 pm They arrived over the past month in the inboxes of Microsoft coders, Amazon copy editors, and Boeing engineers along with tens of thousands of other employees across Washington state: Emails from payroll departments or human resources telling staffers that they might have the option to opt-out of a new state payroll tax to fund long-term care. To which many employees responded: “What in the world…?” The reason for the email is a somewhat forgotten tax and...

Photo: Pixabay via Pexels Although the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT's info-blocking rules have now been in effect for months, many healthcare organizations are still reporting confusion about how to come into compliance.   In fact, some say they don't know what info-blocking actually entails – or how to avoid it. "Information blocking is a practice that interferes with access, exchange, or use of electronic health information, unless the practice is required by law or falls under an exception," explained Adam Greene, partner at Davis Wright Tremaine.   "That being sai...

A Detroit man is the fourth individual to plead guilty in connection with hacking human resources databases at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and

Tech your username 7 hours ago A complaint filed by Amazon Tuesday in the Western District of Washington brought allegations of trademark infringement and false designation of origin against an unidentified group of affiliate marketers. According to the filing, affiliate marketers “refer people to websites for money.” The complaint alleged that the defendants used text message campaigns to generate traffic that could be monetized, adding that the texts “deceive victims into believing [they] are from Amazon.” Amazon explained that the text mesages uses its trademarks to achieve this, ...