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October 3, 2014

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USCIS Introduces Form I-9 Desktop Widget | WWC

Employers can now download and install a USCIS-provided desktop widget for filling out Form I-9, the worker eligibility document that all new hires must complete within three days. The widget takes you to an online Form I-9, but remember that employers still must complete Section I and employees Section II. In the end, you need to print out and retain a hard copy. DOWNLOAD THE I-9 WIDGET Th...

October 2, 2014

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McCormick & Schmick's Settles Discrimination Lawsuit for $1.3 Million

McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurants Inc. and McCormick and Schmick Restaurant Corporation will pay $1.3 million and provide significant equitable relief to settle a pattern-or-practice race discrimination lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency has announced. The EEOC filed the lawsuit in 2008, charging that McCormick & Schmick's engaged in...

October 2, 2014

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Alabama Partners with DOL on Misclassification | WWC

Officials of the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) and the Alabama Department of Labor today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to protect the rights of employees by preventing their being misclassified as something other than employees, such as independent contractors. The MOU represents a new effort on the part of the agencies to work together to protect the rights of...

October 1, 2014

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7-Eleven Hit in Largest ICE Forfeiture Case | WWC

Five franchisees and operators of 7-Eleven, Inc. (7-Eleven) stores located throughout Long Island and Virginia entered guilty pleas Monday at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York. The defendants pled guilty to committing wire fraud and concealing and harboring illegal aliens employed at 7-eleven stores. The guilty pleas stem from an extensive investigation by U.S. Immigration and C...

September 30, 2014

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Labor Groups Worried Over Possible Delay in Home Care Worker Rule

More than 40 labor and advocacy groups have sent a joint letter to Labor Secretary Tom Perez to voice their concerns that the Department of Labor (DOL) might delay the rollout of its home care workers rule. The proposed rule would extend minimum wage and overtime protections to home care workers. "The basic rights of two million home care workers -- predominantly women and disproportionately w...

September 30, 2014

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Health Care Subsidy, Residency Deadline Looms Today | WWC

Today is the final deadline (following an original Sept. 5 deadline) for income and citizenship verification for hundreds of thousands of people who signed up for insurance on HealthCare.gov, but whose income statements didn't jibe with IRS records or who failed to provide proper residency/citizenship verification. The Obama administration says about 300,000 people are affected by the income r...

September 29, 2014

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USCIS Publishes Form I-9 Webinar on Demand | WWC

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has produced a "Form I-9 Webinar on Demand." You can watch any of its 14 sections individually or the whole video in one 22-minute segment. For more details on complying with all forms of employment eligibility verification, please get a copy of Personnel Concepts' I-9 Compliance Kit.

September 26, 2014

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EEOC Files First Transgender Bias Cases | WWC

Lakeland Eye Clinic, a Lakeland, Fla.-based organization of health care professionals, discriminated based on sex in violation of federal law by firing an employee because she is transgender, because she was transitioning from male to female, and/or because she did not conform to the employer's gender-based expectations, preferences, or stereotypes, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (...

September 26, 2014

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HHS Lowers ACA Enrollment Goal | WWC

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathew Burwell told the Los Angeles Times this week that her agency is reconsidering its 13-million policyholder goal for enrollment in the second year of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In the first year, after drop-outs the enrollment stands at 7.3 million, meaning that almost 6 million more would have to enroll in the second year, along with t...

September 24, 2014

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Number of Insurers Offering Federal Obamacare Policies Jumps 25 Percent

The number of health insurance companies offering policies on HealthCare.gov beginning Nov. 15 -- the start of the next open enrollment period -- will jump to 249 from the 191 that participated during the first enrollment period. And that's after subtracting nine companies that are opting out. In announcing the uptick, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathew Burwell said her fi...

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