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The United States and Canada have reached the first comprehensive international agreement which provides discipline over the conduct of trade in services. The U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement (FTA) establishes a [...]

Legal information The Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 requires a supplier of a service acting in the course of business in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to carry […]

adults' services Harrow Council will face a judicial review over its decision to restrict adult social care to people with 'critical' needs only. A High Court hearing will take place [...]

Industry bosses have slammed new laws which prevent direct marketing agencies from dispensing advice on insuring campaigns, claiming they will create widespread confusion. Under the recent edict introduced by the [...]

Liberty Card Services has filed an application to patent its innovative photo card process. According to Liberty Card Services President Michelle Thornton, the Liberty process is unique because it uses [...]

The Medical Waste Institute and its allies have successfully blocked Underwriters Laboratories Inc. from adopting an industry standard for alternative medical waste treatment technology. The Medical Waste Institute, an association [...]

Regulation, regulation, regulation. No, not Tony Blair's latest mantra, but what carers providing adult care placements feel they are saddled with. Under the current system, adult placement carers who provide [...]

Does the Data Protection Act work? Recent cases suggest that organisations are utterly confused by it. Is that because of their lack of common sense or is it the law [...]

The Michigan Department of Consumer and Industry Services is responsible for the protection of state residents through the licensing and regulation of a range of industries, professions and occupations. Among [...]

HIPAA's privacy rule, promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Services to implement part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, may have unintended but serious consequences for [...]

Complaints to the Federal Trade Commission about abusive debt collection practices jumped 23% last year, to 26,840, and are poised to rise further this year, according to the agency's annual [...]

Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller recently announced an overhaul in the mandate of the FBI and in the ways it will be able to conduct its [...]

LONDON-Professional service firms and other service providers are breathing a sigh of relief following a long-awaited House of Lords ruling that reinstates time limits on negligence cases, U.K. lawyers say. [...]

Sme think its rules will never be enforced and others shudder at the mention of HIPAA, the acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act enacted in 1996. As [...]

Underwriters Laboratories has certified the Model 330 microturbine power system from Capstone as meeting its UL1741 utility interactive requirements. The unit was the only microturbine generator to achieve this safety [...]

The Washington Convention Center Authority has pushed back the release of request for proposals to bring telecommuncation services to D.C.'s new convention center. The REP for a telecom contract was [...]

WASHINGTON -- James Walter is getting frustrated with ARC. Walter said his St. Louis-based agency, Tiger Travel, has been hit with $19 compensatory late fees for each of the last […]

The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act is a new federal law designed to liberalize banking. The Federal Trade Commission, however, interprets the law as applying to all consumer financial services firms, including debt [...]

It has been two years since the Airlines Reporting Corp.'s (ARC) new ticketing security rules became mandatory for all agency locations, with one exception. In a prior column (May 5, […]

EHScompliance.com, from Heliman & Associates, is an online subscription-based service that offers clients information about which OSHA regulations apply to them, provides the tools necessary to comply with those regulations, [...]

Having worked long and hard to get that judgment against that recalcitrant debtor, you are now ready to begin collection efforts. As you have done in the past, you arrange [...]

Sunset Evaluation of Barbering and Beauty Culture January 2001, report by state Auditor Marion M. Higa During the 1999 legislative session, the Legislature found that deregulating professions and vocations where [...]

Here are some reasons against deregulation of the cosmetology and barbering professions and the removal of board: * The board has some degree of expertise in both fields. The state [...]

CHICAGO--The Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA) has published its White Paper on Third Party Issues. The White Paper is the result of more than two years of discussion. An Ad [...]

MONTGOMERY COUNTY recently won its second court battle against a neighbor opposed to the construction of a conference center near the White Flint Metro station. A circuit judge court upheld [...]

Mortgage servicers are not debt collectors - or are they? An industry coalition is lobbying to exempt them from the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Will they succeed? Staff at [...]

It's a good time to take a look at the proposed new rules on corporate sponsorship that the Internal Revenue Service expects to finalize soon. The IRS proposal focuses on [...]

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a final rule requiring financial institutions and consumer reporting agencies to provide consumers with a notice of their privacy policies and practices. The [...]

CP Industries, a division of Reunion Industries, Inc., McKeesport, PA, has received U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) approval for A-Scan Acoustic Emission restesting of cylinders. CPI is also DOT accredited [...]

A long with the new opportunities each new year brings, business people have become accustomed to navigating the maze of new laws and government guidelines that often take effect at […]

The credit industry, which uses public records to determine someone's creditworthiness, is raising concerns over proposals that would protect the privacy of people who appear in Washington's family courts. Two [...]

A proposed law regulating companies offering dating services was recently approved in a preliminary reading by the Israeli Knesset. Under the bill all companies operating services of this kind will [...]

First Ad Edict Urges Departments to 'Aggressively' Ensure Rules WASHINGTON, D.C.--Federal advertising contracts must fairly represent minority ad agencies, and 'special attention' should be given to placing ads in ethnic [...]

The showdown in Privacy Town is coming to a head with a posse of regulators facing off against credit and collections executives. Who will be standing when the dust settles? [...]

The Federal Trade Commission s interpretation of the use of credit headers under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Modernization Act of 1999 is such a bone of contention among credit data vendors [...]

Home-based businesses that receive their mail at commercial operations such as Mail Boxes Etc. have until Aug. 1, 2001 to start using the acronym 'PMB' (private mailbox) or '#' in [...]

The estimated 50,000 testing laboratories in the United States may find certification easier and less redundant under a new government and industry proposal. The National Institute of Standards and Technology [...]

The Internet is revolutionizing how the credit professional handles credit transactions. Credit professionals are using the Internet for a myriad of credit and financial functions, from credit research and scoring, [...]

WASHINGTON: A new financial data protection act imposed by the Federal Trade Commission faces derailment by a legal challenge launched by some of the US's most powerful data companies. A [...]

High-style ads at hairstyle salon It's a hot job market, as we wage slaves are constantly reminded, and in Atlanta a new salon is going way beyond the usual 'Help [...]

A bill before Philadelphia City Council next week could give hotel and other service industry workers temporary job stability in the event of management or ownership changes. It could also [...]

Everyone's always talking about keeping the government out of our wallets. But a new Kansas law helps keep government out of our hair. Kansas Gov. Bill Graves signed a bill [...]

Toronto--At the beginning of March this year, the Ontario Human Rights Commission fined Scott Brockie, owner of a Toronto printing business called Managing Excellence, $5,000 for refusing to print stationery […]

Pawn brokers and check-cashers who are making so-called 'payday' loans in Maryland now will have to get licensed by the state or risk criminal penalties. Under the terms of a [...]