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November 27, 2017
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DOL Delays Compliance Deadline for ERISA Disability Benefits Procedure

The Department of Labor (DOL) has announced a 90-day delay – through April 1, 2018 – of the applicability date for ERISA plans to comply with a final rule amending the claims procedure requirements applicable to disability benefits. Labor Secretary Acosta The three-month delay of the applicability date announced Nov. 24 i...

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November 22, 2017
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OSHA Extends Deadline for Injury-Illness Electronic Filing

To allow affected employers additional time to become familiar with a new electronic reporting system launched on Aug. 1, 2017, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)  has extended the  date by which employers must electronically report injury and illness data through the  OSHA’s final rule to Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses set...
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November 18, 2017
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OSHA Releases Fact Sheet on Confined Spaces in Residential Construction

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has developed a standard for Confined Spaces in Construction (29 CFR 1926 Subpart AA) that applies to spaces such as attics, basements, and crawl spaces. To help employers understand this standard, the agency has just released a Fact Sheet to go along with a set of FAQs. A confined space that contains certain hazardous conditions may b...
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November 18, 2017
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Trump Nominates Pharma Exec to Head HHS

President Trump has nominated Alex Azar to head up the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). As recently as January of this year, Azar was president of the American wing of pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly, where he served from 2012 in various posts. Under President George W. Bush, Azar served as deputy secretary of HHS from 2005 to 2007. The post of HHS secretary has been vacant since...
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November 15, 2017
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GOP Adds Obamacare Mandate Repeal to Senate Tax Bill

Eyeing to save $300 billion over 10 years to help finance individual tax cuts, Senate Republicans on Tuesday (Nov. 14) added repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) individual mandate to its tax legislation. The move also allows tax writers to up the child tax credit to $2,000, a goal of First Daughter Ivanka Trump. He...

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November 14, 2017
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Is Your State More Prone to Employee Discrimination Lawsuits?

Nationwide, according to a new study, American businesses face an average 10.5 percent chance of being sued by an employee for discrimination, or for retaliation for reporting discrimination. The District of Columbia leads all U.S. locations at a whopping 81 percent, but some states also present great odds, led by Nevada and Delaware at 55 percent. The other states with higher-than-average odd...
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November 14, 2017
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IRS to Start Issuing Obamacare Penalty Letters to Employers Next Month

President Trump may be beating the drum to end the Obamacare individual mandate with looming tax reform legislation (to little avail so far), but the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is already gearing up to enforce both that mandate and the employer shared responsibility mandate for businesses with 50 or more employees. The IRS will ...

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November 14, 2017
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Pro-Business Lawyer Robb Confirmed as NLRB General Counsel

Peter Robb, new NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb has been confirmed as general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), becoming the gatekeeper who decides which cases the board hears. Pro-business attorney Robb replaces Richard Griffith, a pro-labor Obama appointee whose term expired with the witching hour on ...

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November 10, 2017
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EEOC Reduces Inventory of Charges in FY 2017

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) made significant progress in managing the pending inventory of charges in fiscal year 2017, the agency reports. EEOC says its offices deployed new strategies to more efficiently prioritize charges with merit and more quickly resolve investigations once the agency had sufficient information.  Together with improvements in the agency's digital s...
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November 9, 2017
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CMS Confirms Uptick in Obamacare Enrollments in Week 1

In week one of Open Enrollment for 2018, 601,462 people selected plans using the HealthCare.gov platform. As in past years, enrollment weeks are measured Sunday through Saturday. Consequently, week one was only four days long this year -- from Wednesday to Saturday, Nov 1-4. Every week during Open Enrollment, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will release enrollment snapshot...
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