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July 25, 2014

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DOJ Requires Closed Captions in Theaters | WWC

The Attorney General today signed the Department's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing to revise the department's Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) title III regulation to require movie theaters to exhibit movies with closed movie captioning and audio description, to require theaters to provide notice to the public about the availability of these services, and to ensure...

July 24, 2014

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HHS Says Consumers Will Receive $330M in Health Insurance Refunds This Year

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today predicted that consumers will receive $330 million in health insurance premium refunds this year because insurers will exceed profits and administrative expenses allowed under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Created through the ACA, the 80/20 rule, also known as the Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) rule, requires insurers to spend at least 80...

July 24, 2014

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Recall of Seattle's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage Fails | WWC

Two signature-gathering efforts to place a referendum on the ballot to eliminate Seattle's mandated new $15-an-hour minimum wage have failed. Needing 16,510 voters' signatures to make the ballot, an effort by business group Forward Seattle qualified 14,818 signatures out of 18,929 obtained. Save Our Choice fared even worse, garnering only 455 valid signatures. In June, the Sea...

July 23, 2014

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GAO Sting Operation Finds Obamacare Honors 11 of 12 Fake Applications

The Governmental Accountability Office (GAO) conducted a sting operation on Obamacare during the health insurance sign-up period that ended March 31 and announced that 11 of 12 fake applicants are still to this day covered with subsidies. "The federal marketplace approved coverage for 11 of our 12 fictitious applicants who initially applied online, or by telephone," Seto B...

July 22, 2014

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Notice Required for Dropped Contraceptive Coverage | WWC

The Department of Labor (DOL) is requiring closely held companies that drop contraceptive services from their health plans to inform their employees in writing within 60 days of the decision. The vehicle for doing this is the Summary Plan Description (SPD) for the health plan, which would have to disclose the elimination of coverage and be distributed to all employees. The guidance ap...

July 21, 2014

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President Signs LGBT Anti-Discrimination Executive Order Amendments

President Obama this morning signed amendments to Executive Order 11246 prohibiting companies that conduct business with the federal government from discriminating against their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) employees. "In fact, more states now allow same-sex marriage than prohibit discrimination against LGBT workers," Obama said at the signing ceremony. &q...

July 19, 2014

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CMS Exempts U.S. Territories from Most Obamacare Rules

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has informed the U.S. Territories of American Samoa, Puerto Rico, American Samoa and the Virgin Islands that most Affordable Care Act (ACA) provisions do not apply to them. The provisions that do not apply to the territories are guaranteed issue, the community rating rules, the essential health benefits rule and the minimum medical loss...

July 16, 2014

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Minor Leaguers Sue MLB for Minimum Wages and Overtime Pay

A class action lawsuit on behalf of the minor leaguers of all 30 Major League Baseball (MLB) teams is seeking minimum wages plus overtime. As it stands, minor leaguers currently earn a maximum starting salary of $5,500 for toiling from spring to fall. The case, Senne v. MLB, is scheduled to be heard in September in San Francisco. “No one is saying that minor leaguers should be g...

July 15, 2014

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EEOC Releases Pregnancy Discrimination Enforcement Guidance

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today issued its first comprehensive update since 1983 on pregnancy discrimination enforcement guidance. The just-published "Enforcement Guidance on Pregnancy Discrimination and Related Issues" supersedes the 1983 publication of a Compliance Manual chapter on the subject and incorporates significant developments in the law during th...

July 14, 2014

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HHS Offers States $100 Million to Improve Medicaid

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is ponying up $100 for states to innovate and improve their Medicaid services and patient care. “Medicaid innovation is moving forward, and the new Medicaid Innovation Accelerator Program [IAP], announced in response to recommendations from governors, will give states the opportunity to even further strengthen their great work,&rdquo...

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