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May 27, 2014

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Hawaii Raises Minimum Wage to $10.10 an Hour in Steps

Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie has signed Senate Bill 2609, raising the state's minimum wage over four years to $10.10 an hour and upping the tip credit over two years. “A hardworking sector of our community has gone seven years without a raise,” Gov. Abercrombie said. “This legislation will raise Hawaii’s minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour, providing our ...

May 22, 2014

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OSHA Chief Finds Way Around 30-Day Whistleblower Statute of Limitation

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While hoping to get Congress to increase the 30-day statute of limitation for claims of whistleblower retaliation at work, OSHA administrator David Michaels has commenced a cooperative program with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for concurrent claim filings. Yesterday, the NLRB's general counsel issued a memorandum announcing the new "claim referral program," wher...

May 21, 2014

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Wage-and-Hour Lawsuits Continue Their Rise

Wage-and-hour lawsuits rose 5 percent year over year during the 12-month period ending March 31, tapping out at 8,126 cases filed. This is the seventh straight yearly rise, with the increase from the year 2000 standing at 438 percent, according to data from the Federal Judicial Review Center. Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) lawsuits generally involve issues of unpaid overtime, minimum wag...

May 20, 2014

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Court Orders Employer to Pay for Employee's Medical Marijuana

In an unusual twist for a state that outlaws marijuana use except in specified medical situations, the New Mexico Court of Appeals has ordered a repair shop owner and the shop's workers' compensation insurer to pay for medical marijuana use to treat an employee's work-injury-related chronic back pain. Ben's Automotive Services and Redwood Fire & Casualty initially refu...

May 15, 2014

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EEOC Seeks Public Input on Employing the Disabled

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it is inviting public input on potential revisions to the regulations implementing Section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, a law that governs employment of individuals with disabilities by the federal government. Current Section 501 regulations prohibit employment discrimination based on disability and explain ...

May 14, 2014

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DOL Secretary Re-Establishes Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee

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Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez announced he will re-establish the charter of the Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee (WPAC). WPAC was established to advise and make recommendations to the secretary of Labor and the assistant secretary for Occupational Safety and Health on ways to improve the fairness, efficiency, effectiveness and transparency of OSHA's whistleblower prote...

May 13, 2014

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Faces of HIPAA Enforcement Changing

Susan McAndrew, dubbed by fellow workers in the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) as "the mother of HIPAA," retired on May 2, and now the leader of the entire group -- OCR Director Leon Rodriguez -- is on the verge of moving over to head the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), to whose leadership post he was recently nominated by President Obama. At OCR, McAndrew, the...

May 12, 2014

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Virginia First State to Release 2015 Obamacare Premiums

Virginia today became the first state to unveil the premiums its health insurers will charge on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces come next fall, with increases ranging from 3.3 percent to 14.9 percent, according to insurance company filings with the state. Anthem HealthKeepers, run by WellPoint, will hike premiums an average of 8.5 percent, with a low increase of 0.5 percent and...

May 10, 2014

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Health Insurance CEO Pay Skyrockets in Wake of ACA

Though the big health insurers fought many provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) tooth and nail, that didn't stop them from finding a rainbow in the midst of health care reform and jacking up the pay of their chief executive officers. Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini is now up in the stratosphere with total compensation at $30.7 million a year. Other CEOs are following closely in his fo...

May 7, 2014

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Insurers Say About 80 Percent of Obamacare Enrollees Have Paid Up

Several insurers report that about 80 percent of those who signed up for health insurance on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces have made their initial premium payments, but they add that there are "many duplicate enrollments" among the 8 million the Obama administration claims enrolled by the deadline. The duplicates arose when people frustrated at the HealthCare.gov si...

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