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January 13, 2015
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OSHA Recordkeeping Annual Summary Due by Feb. 1 | WWC

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) 300A injury and illness summary form must be posted in a conspicuous workplace location by Feb. 1 and kept up until April 30. The 300A is a summary of the information from the OSHA 300 injury and illness recordkeeping form (which shouldn't be posted, just the summary form). The summary form must be signed by a company executive to verif...
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January 12, 2015
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U.S. Chamber Sues to Overturn Quickie Election Rule | WWC

Citing violations of the First Amendment, the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and various sections of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the Chamber of Commerce of the United States has sued to have the recent "Quckie Election" rule governing unionization efforts overturned. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Dec. 12 promulgated its long-anticipated "Final Rule to Mod...
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January 10, 2015
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Health Care Subsidies Could Cost Consumers at Tax Time | WWC

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in charge of enacting Obamacare, and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in charge of enforcing the very same Affordable Care Act (ACA), have issued a statement about providing help at tax time for those who signed up for health care through one of the ACA exchanges. What they're not directly admitting is that, if a consumer received a subsidy ...
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January 8, 2015
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Obamacare Enrollment Up to 6.6 Million for 2015 | WWC

Since Open Enrollment began on Nov. 15, nearly 6.6 million consumers selected a health insurance plan or were automatically re-enrolled in the Federally Facilitated Marketplace (FFM), according to a post on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) blog. The Week 7 snapshot (as HHS calls it) includes the New Year’s holiday; consumers continued to shop and select the plan that best meet...
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January 6, 2015
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MSHA Says Coal Mining Deaths at Historic Lows | WWC

Preliminary data released by the U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) indicates that 40 miners died in work-related accidents at the nation's mines in 2014, two fewer than in the previous year. Coal mining deaths dropped from 20 in 2013 to 16 in 2014, the lowest annual number of coal mining deaths ever recorded in the United States. The previous record low was...
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January 6, 2015
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87% of ACA Sign-Ups Receive Subsidies | WWC

A report released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provides the first detailed analysis of enrollment in the Obamacare marketplaces for the first month of the 2015 open enrollment period.   About 87 percent of people who selected health insurance plans through HealthCare.gov for coverage beginning Jan. 1, 2015 were determined eligible for financial assistance to lower their ...
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December 31, 2014
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OSHA Announces Top 10 Violations for FY 2014 | WWC

The following is a list of the top 10 most frequently cited standards following inspections of worksites by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for fiscal year 2014, which ended on Sept. 30, 2014. OSHA publishes this list to alert employers about these commonly cited standards so they can take steps to find and fix recognized hazards addressed in these and other standar...
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December 29, 2014
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HHS Announces Ebola Vaccine Project Agreements | WWC

Contracts to speed further development of two promising Ebola vaccines, known as rVSV-ZEBOV-GP and ChAd3 EBO-Z, could pave the way for commercial-scale production of millions of vaccine doses if clinical trials prove safety and efficacy, officials of the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) announced Dec. 23. Deve...
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December 23, 2014
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Court Voids DOL's Home Health Care Minimum Wage Rule | WWC

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday struck down a Department of Labor (DOL) rule folding home health care workers into the wage provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), calling the rule a “thinly-veiled effort to do through regulation what could not be done through legislation.” The Wagner Act of 1938, or what's now known as the FLSA, specifically exempted ...
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December 23, 2014
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HHS Says 6.4 Million Have Signed Up for Obamacare in Year Two

From Nov. 15 to Dec. 19, nearly 6.4 million consumers selected a plan in the Federally Facilitated Marketplace (FFM) or were automatically re-enrolled, with approximately 30 percent of this total comprised of people newly signing up for Marketplace coverage, according to statistics released today by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). “We still have a lot of work to do before th...
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