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December 8, 2017

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EEOC Releases Strategic Plan for 2018-2022

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has released for public comment a draft of its Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2018-2022, the agency announced today. The draft plan can be found at Regulations.gov. Comments must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. ET on Jan. 8, 2018. This draft plan has not been approved by the commission and is still under review. The Strategic Plan serves as a fr...

CHIP Program Funded Through End of the Year

December 7, 2017

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As part of a stopgap federal government spending measure passed today by both the House and Senate, funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) has been authorized through the end of 2017. Meanwhile, funding for the federal government will expire on Dec. 22, presumably giving Republicans long enough to pass their tax reform reconciliation measure. The CHIP provisions allows th...

December 7, 2017

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Health Care Spending Slows Nationally, Rises Individually

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reported on Dec. 6 that health care spending in 2016 slowed its growth rate, whereas individuals' out-of-pocket costs rose. In 2016 health care expenditures reached $3.3 trillion, an increase of 4.3 percent, following two years of rapid growth during the first years of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its expansion of individuals enrolling ...

Obamacare Enrollment Reaches 3.6 Million in Latest Tally

December 6, 2017

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As of Saturday, Dec. 2, Obamacare enrollment on the federal marketplace had reached 3.6 million with two weeks remaining before open enrollment closes on Dec. 15. A total of 823,180 people during the week ending Dec. 2 signed up for an insurance plan sold on HealthCare.gov, which serves most of the United States, according to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) officials. In...

December 5, 2017

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DOL Seeks Comments on Revising Its Tip Pool Regulations

The Department of Labor (DOL) is proposing to revise the agency's 2011 tip pool regulations to allow the sharing of tips with back-of-the-house employees provided everyone is paid the minimum wage. It has published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in the Federal Register, in which it states the agency is "proposing to rescind the parts of its tip regulations that bar tipsharing arrangem...

December 4, 2017

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New NLRB General Counsel Reins in Obama-era Rulings

In a memo issued Dec. 1, new National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Peter Robb ordered NLRB offices across the country to refer all cases to him that are based on rulings during the eight years of President Obama. Peter Robb, new NLRB General Counsel Robb wrote: "Significant legal issues include cases o...

November 28, 2017

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EEOC Scores First Victory in Sexual Orientation Discrimination Lawsuit

Score a victory for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in its effort to get courts to side with its position that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination based not only on sex but also on sexual orientation. The commission's sexual orientation discrimination lawsuit against Scott Medical Health Center, P.C., was one of the first two it filed and has now becom...

November 28, 2017

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DOL Announces 18-Month Extension of Transition Period for Fiduciary Rule Enforcement

The Department of Labor (DOL) has announced an 18-month extension from Jan. 1, 2018, to July 1, 2019, of the special Transition Period for the Fiduciary Rule’s Best Interest Contract Exemption and the Principal Transactions Exemption, and of the applicability of certain amendments to Prohibited Transaction Exemption 84-24 (PTEs). This follows public comment on a proposed extension that was publ...

November 27, 2017

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EEOC Releases 'Promising Practices' for Preventing, Responding to Harassment

In advance of issuing revised sexual harassment guidelines -- the first revision in two decades -- the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued a report by its Called 'Promising Practices," the five principles are: Committed and engaged leadership Consistent and demonstrated accountability Strong and comprehensive harassment policies Trusted and accessible com...

November 27, 2017

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ICE to Target National Food Service Chain, Report Asserts

According to The Daily Beast, which claims to have obtained an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) memo, ICE agents will soon be targeting a "national food service chain." The chain was unnamed in the report. Statistics indicate that the food service industry workforce in general consists of some 9 percent undocumented workers. Tom Homan, acting ICE director, recently announced...

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