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September 10, 2014
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IRS Takes to YouTube to Promote Obamacare | WWC

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has uploaded a series of videos on YouTube featuring Commissioner John Koskinen, among others, explaining various provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA, aka Obamacare). Among the topics covered are the small business health care tax credit, the individual shared responsibility provision, the Flexible Spending Account (FSA) carryover provision, and the ad...
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September 9, 2014
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GAO Criticizes HHS for Approving Costly Arkansas Medicaid Experiment

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) says its audit of a demonstration program for Medicaid expansion in Arkansas shows that the program is not cost-neutral, which violates standards for allowing Medicaid experimentation. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) denies that the Arkansas program will cost the federal government $778 million more than if a standard Medicaid progra...
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September 8, 2014
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Supreme Court Asked by 32 States to Rule on Same-Sex Marriage Bans

Just this past week, a federal court in Louisiana ruled that that state's ban on same-sex marriages was constitutional, breaking a trend set by 20 other courts that had ruled state bans unconstitutional. Though that decision will now go before a circuit court for review, 32 states both for and against have already petitioned the Supreme Court for a decision on the constitutionality of state sa...
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September 7, 2014
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Raiders: Commitment to Back Pay | WWC

The Oakland Raiders have entered into a $1.25 million settlement, yet to be court approved, with their Raiderettes -- sideline cheerleaders -- over back pay. The cheerleaders filed a class action lawsuit in 2013, alleging the football team had failed to pay minimum wage and overtime as provided for under California labor law. That same year, the team commenced paying according to state law. T...
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September 5, 2014
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HealthCare.Gov Website Hacked

Hackers evidently broke into a server for the Obamacare HealthCare.Gov site in July, planting a malicious piece of software and hoping to launch a Dynamic Denial of Service (DDS) attack. Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) say no personal data were compromised. "Our review indicates that the server did not contain consumer personal information; data [were] not transm...
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September 4, 2014
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HealthCare.Gov Contractor Gets Six-Month Extension | WWC

Declaring that it would be foolish to switch contractors during an open-enrollment period, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has extended by six months the web technology services contract of Accenture, which was called in to fix the many glitches that plagued the launch of HealthCare.Gov in November 2013. The next open-enrollment period to sign up for health care on th...
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September 3, 2014
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Obama Names New Chair for EEOC | WWC

President Obama has named Jenny R. Yang Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to succeed outgoing Chair Jacqueline Berrien. Yang is currently vice chair of the EEOC, and was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 25, 2013. Yang will be the first Asian-American Chair of the EEOC. "It is an honor and privilege to have been named by President Obama to se...
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September 3, 2014
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NLRB and Ecuadorian Ministry Sign Collaborative MOU | WWC

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility of Ecuador have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) designed to strengthen their collaborative efforts to provide Ecuadorian workers, their employers, and Ecuadorian business owners in the United States with information, guidance, and access to education regarding their rights and responsib...
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September 3, 2014
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EEO-1 Reports for Large Employers, Federal Contractors Due Sept. 30

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has completed its mailing of the 2014 EEO-1 survey notification letters.  The EEO-1 is an annual survey that requires all private employers with 100 or more employees, and federal government contractors or first-tier subcontractors with 50 or more employees and a contract/subcontract of $50,000 or more, to file the EEO-1 report.  Th...
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August 29, 2014
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Pennsylvania Becomes 27th State to Expand Medicaid | WWC

Pennsylvania, where Gov. Tom Corbett has long sought changes in how the federal health care system is run, has finally agreed to expand its Medicaid coverage under terms of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but will let private insurers run the program for the state with 100 percent federal funding. Pennsylvania thus becomes the 27th state to expand its Medicaid program, enabling 2.2 million...
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