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July 22, 2013
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Poll Shows Skepticism by Doctors About Obamacare and Its Marketplaces

A poll just out, conducted by LocumTenens.com, shows that just 11 percent of the nation's doctors believe that the Health Insurance Marketplaces envisioned by the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) will be operational in their states by the Oct. 1, 2013, deadline. The results get more dismal when doctors were queried about provisions of Obamacare that would directly affect them: ...
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July 18, 2013
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Perez Approved as Secretary of Labor

The U.S. Senate today approved the nomination of Thomas E. Perez as the nation's 26th Secretary of Labor. Perez has spent his entire career in public service, and will join the Department of Labor on July 23 after a tenure as assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Perez previously served as the secretary of Maryla...
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July 18, 2013
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Insurance Rates Under ACA to Be Lower Than Expected, HHS Says

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today released a new report that finds premiums in the Health Insurance Marketplace will be nearly 20 percent lower in 2014 than previously expected. The Affordable Care Act requires health insurers in every state to publicly justify any premium rate increases of 10 percent or more.  Health insurance companies now generally have to spend at least 80 ce...
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July 18, 2013
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4th Circuit Dittos Earlier Rulings on NLRB Recess Appiontments

The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday concurred with two other appeals courts in ruling that President Obama's "recess" appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in January 2012 were unconstitutional because the Senate wasn't actually in recess, just on break between ongoing sessions. The vote by the three-member panel representing the full cour...
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July 18, 2013
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President Names Two Replacement Nominees to NLRB

Earlier this week the Senate, in a showdown between Democrats and Republicans over filibuster rules, struck a deal to confirm many of President Obama's pending federal appointments. As part of the deal, two persons given recess appointments in 2012 to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) -- and later renominated when their appointments were ruled unconstitutional -- have been rep...
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July 18, 2013
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Oregon Adds Bereavement to Protected Leave Categories

Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber has signed HB 2950 to add bereavement to the list of protected leave categories under the Oregon Family Leave Act (OFLA), effective Jan. 1, 2014. Under the law, employees within 60 days of the death of a family member will be able to take two weeks of leave to attend the funeral or other service, to make necessary funeral arrangements, or simply to grieve. O...
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July 18, 2013
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EPA Building Renamed in Honor of Bill Clinton

The Ariel Rios Building housing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now the William Jefferson Clinton Building, thanks to legislation introduced by Sen. Barbara Boxer, D.-Calif. The Ariel Rios name, which honored a fallen agent of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), will be resurrected on a reflecting pond with the family's consent. (The EPA Buildin...
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July 17, 2013
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Romneycare Defers to Obamacare and Drops 'Play or Pay' Assessment

Regardless of the fact that the Employer Shared Responsibility "play or pay" assessment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) has been delayed until 2015, Massachusetts has dropped its similar penalty provision effective this July 1 in deference to the national health care code. In Massachusetts the employer penalty for not providing health insurance for its employees i...
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July 17, 2013
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Rhode Island Minimum Wage to Rise to $8 an Hour

Gov. Lincoln Chafee on Monday signed legislation to raise the Rhode Island minimum wage to $8 an hour on Jan. 1, 2014, up from the current $7.75. Nearby Massachusetts has an $8 minimum wage in place, and Connecticut's rate stands at $8.25.
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July 15, 2013
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Idaho Joins E-Verify RIDE

Yesterday, Idaho became the third state after Mississippi and Florida to join the Records and Information from DMWs for E-Verify (RIDE) program, which collects driver's license and state ID information from participating states to be used in the employment verification process. Such state-based information then can be culled from the online databases that form the E-Verify program, wh...
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