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October 15, 2014
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DOL Issues $170M in Grants for Long-Term Unemployed Job Placement

The Department of Labor today announced $169,771,960 in grants to expedite the employment of Americans struggling with long-term unemployment. The grants are part of the Ready to Work Partnership initiative to support and scale innovative collaborations between employers, nonprofit organizations and federal job training programs to help connect ready-to-work Americans with ready-to-be-filled jo...
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October 14, 2014
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Ada Lovelace Day Celebrated Today, Oct. 14 | WWC

Ada Lovelace in 1833 developed what was arguably the world's first programming language, or algorithm, for mathematician and mechanical engineer Charles Babbage, who was working on two prototype computers called the Difference Engine and the Analytics Engine. Ada was the daughter of Lord Byron and mathematics-loving Annabella Milbanke, who instilled in her daughter a love of science, math and ...
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October 9, 2014
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New HealthCare.Gov Site Unveiled But With Spanish Misspellings

A day after insurers got to navigate through the site, the administration unveiled its revamped HealthCare.Gov insurance portal on Wednesday with versions in both English and Spanish, but with "get ready" misspelled three times in Spanish as preparase instead of the correct spelling, preparese. The incorrect usage appears three times. Open enrollment for year two of Obamacare commences Nov. 1...
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October 9, 2014
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Top 1% of Patients Consume 22.7% of Spending, Research Group Finds

The top 1 percent of all patients consume 22.7 percent of all health care spending, while the top 5 percent account for half of all spending, according to an analysis by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The average annual tab for the elderly in the top 5 percent is $60,976, topped only by people with four or more conditions in the top 5 percent, whose yearly total is $78,...
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October 7, 2014
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Gag Order Placed on Insurers Who Test Revamped HealthCare.Gov Site

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has invited health insurers to test the revamped HealthCare.Gov site today but only if they "acknowledge the confidentiality of this process." Despite the gag order, which states that the testers "will not use, disclose, describe, post to a public form, or in any way share Test Data with any person or entity, including but not limited to the...
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October 7, 2014
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Wal-Mart, Other Retailers Cut Health Care for Part-Time Workers

Joining Target, Home Depot and others, Wal-Mart -- the nation's largest retailer -- has announced plans to eliminate health insurance for some of its part-time workers (those who work fewer than 30 hours a week) in order to curb health care expenses. Wal-Mart employs 1.4 million full- and part-time workers, but only about 30,000 of them will be affected. The move will be implemented come Jan. ...
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October 6, 2014
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By Refusing to Hear the Issue, SCOTUS Allows Gay Marriage in Five More States

The Supreme Court today refused to consider whether states can ban gay marriages and in so doing upheld rulings by judges in five states that had struck down bans on gay marriages. As a result, Virginia, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Utah and Indiana will now be obliged to allow gay marriages, bringing the total number of states so aligned to 24 from 19. In addition, another six states are bound by fed...
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October 6, 2014
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USCIS Launches myE-Verify for Employees | WWC

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director León Rodríguez has announced the launch of myE-Verify — a new website designed for employees.  myE-Verify is a one-stop shop for employees to create and maintain secure personal accounts and access new features for identity protection, according to USCIS. “Since its inception, E-Verify has provided employees with valuable online tools ...
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October 6, 2014
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WHD Finally Releases Enforcement Statistics | WWC

Once the Obama administration took office in 2009, the Department of Labor (DOL) quietly abandoned the practice of releasing yearly enforcement statistics, but its Wage and Hour Division (WHD) finally righted the ship recently when it released data for fiscal years 2009 to 2013. The results show a general uptick from the Bush years  in both back wages collected and enforcement hours, reflectin...
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October 3, 2014
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Home Care Worker Rule Delay Confirmed | WWC

A few days after labor and advocate organizations beseeched the Department of Labor (DOL) not to delay or give up on it, the DOL Solicitor, M. Patricia Smith, announced that the proposed amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to incorporate home care workers won't be ready by November, as the department's regulatory agenda had forecast. She now says the DOL "hopes" to implement the ru...
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