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June 21, 2017
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HHS Faces 500 Million Cyber Attacks Each Week

Beth Killoran, the chief information officer (CIO) for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), recently told a tech conference that her department faces "500 million cyber hack attempts each week" due to the millions of medical records that HHS data centers control. "That's going to go up," she said at the MarkLogic Data Integration Summit June 20. "Because health data is the one th...
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June 20, 2017
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MSHA Launches Training Assistance Program for Miners

Data recently compiled between October 2015 and March 2017 by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) shows that less experienced miners – both at a mine and at a specific occupation – suffer injuries at a higher rate than more experienced miners. Over this 18-month period, miners with one year or less of experience at a mine suffered 903 injuries, compared to 418 for those who had wo...
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June 19, 2017
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Executive Order Seeks to Expand Apprenticeships

Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta on June 15 welcomed President Donald J. Trump’s step toward fulfilling his promise to grow the American economy with the announcement of an executive order to expand apprenticeships and vocational training, close the skills gap and reduce regulatory burdens on workforce development programs. “There are six million job openings in the United States,” said Sec...
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June 19, 2017
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DOL to Request Public Input on Stalled Overtime Rule

Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta informed a House subcommittee on June 7 that the Department of Labor (DOL) will submit a Request for Information  (RFI) to seek input on the Obama-era overtime rule that has been blocked for half a year by a federal judge's injunction. An RFI is a “pre-rulemaking” procedure during which an administrative agency, such as the DOL, asks the regulated community for...
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June 15, 2017
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CMS Releases County-by-County Map of Obamacare Insurance Options

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released  of 2018 projected Health Insurance Exchanges participation based on the known issuer participation public announcements through June 9, 2017. This map shows that insurance options on the Exchanges continue to disappear. Plan options are down from last year and, in some areas, Americans will have no coverage options on the Exch...
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June 15, 2017
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Age Discrimination Persists, EEOC Public Meeting Concludes

Persistent age discrimination and stereotypes about older workers continue to channel older workers out of the workforce, limiting further economic growth, experts told the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) at a public meeting titled "The ADEA @ 50 - More Relevant Than Ever," held at agency headquarters in Washington, D.C. "With so many more people working and living longer, we ca...
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June 14, 2017
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HHS Seeks Input on Remediating 'Burdensome' Obamacare Regulations

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), following an executive order to review all regulations to relieve unnecessary burdens on people, businesses and institutions, is now asking for public input on regulations in the Affordable Care Act, with the goal of identifying burdensome ones and fixing or eliminating them. Here is the exact language from the department's request for informa...
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June 9, 2017
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DOL to Seek Public Input on Persuader Rule

The Department of Labor (DOL) has announced it will publish a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to rescind a rule that would have required employers and labor-management consultants to report consultants’ indirect contact with workers during union organizing campaigns. The NPRM will be published in the Federal Register and be open for public comment on June 12. The public may submit comment...
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June 9, 2017
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New Form I-9 to Be Issued in July

A new version of the Form I-9, dated 07/17/2017 N, will become mandatory on Sept. 17, 2017, replacing the version dated 11/22/2016 N, which may continue to be used until Sept. 16, 2017. The International Entrepreneur Rule was published in the Federal Register by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Aug. 31, 2016, as a proposed rule and the Federal Register accepted comments on this pro...
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June 9, 2017
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Fiduciary Rule Takes Effect, But...

The Department of Labor (DOL) Fiduciary Rule, which requires agents marketing retirement plans to put their clients' best interests first, took effect today, but enforcement won't begin until Jan. 1, and maybe not then. The DOL in advance of the June 9 implementation date announced that it  "will not pursue claims against fiduciaries who are working diligently and in good faith to comply with ...
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