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June 8, 2019
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Judge Rules ACA Contraceptive Mandate Subject to Religious Objection

U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor of Ft. Worth, Texas, who last year ruled the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) unconstitutional, this past week ruled that individuals with religious objections must be allowed to buy insurance without the ACA-mandated contraceptive mandate. 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Chamber...

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SEC Releases Scaled-Down Version of DOL Fiduciary Rule

SEC Releases Scaled-Down Version of DOL Fiduciary Rule

June 6, 2019
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Predating the reworked and much-anticipated Trump admin fiduciary rule expected in December, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published Regulation Best Interest, which will be enforced beginning June 30, 2020, and is now undergoing a 60-day public commentary period. The major change from current SEC regulations concerning transactions by broker-dealers with retail customers (...
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New 30-Day Commentary Period Opens for I-9 Reissue

June 5, 2019
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has opened a 30-day public commentary period on possible revisions to Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The commentary period ends July 5, 2019. The act requires both a 60-day and 30-day commentary period for the I-9, whose current version expires Aug. 31, 2019. A 60-day per...
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June 3, 2019
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EEOC Wellness Rule Rewrite Pushed Back to December

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has been under court order since 2017 to better explain the rationale behind the incentive portion of the wellness rule it promulgated in 2016.  Janet Dhillon, new EEOC Chair The rule governs employer-sponsored wellness programs and allows employers to offer an incenti...

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HHS Releases Fact Sheet on HIPAA Liability of Business Associates

May 28, 2019
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The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued a new fact sheet that provides a clear compilation of all provisions through which a business associate can be held directly liable for compliance with certain requirements of the HIPAA Privacy, Security, Breach Notification, and Enforcement Rules (“HIPAA Rules”), in accordance with the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Heal...
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EEO-1 Pay Data Collection Outsourced, Portal Due to Open by July 15

May 28, 2019
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In its latest update to its supervising court, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on May 24 detailed plans to coordinate the collection of EEO-1 Pay Data (Component 2 of the annual report) with NORC at the University of Chicago, which describes itself as "an objective non-partisan research institution that delivers reliable data and rigorous analysis to guide critical programmat...
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May 28, 2019
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HHS Proposes to Reverse Transgender Protections under Obamacare

The Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) contains language prohibiting discrimination in health care based on sex, which was expanded under a 2016 rule by the Obama-era Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to include gender identity. Now the Trump HHS has proposed reversing that rule and confining ACA anti-discrimination protections to only the physical definition of sex....

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ICE Raids Surge & No-Match Letters Return

May 23, 2019
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its two enforcement wings -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) -- have ramped up raids and indictments. In 2018, DHS conducted 6,850 worksite investigations compared to 1,700 the prior year. In addition, ICE made 800 criminal arrests in 2018 but just 140 in 2017. Most recently, 200 ICE agents rai...
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May 20, 2019
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ADA Lawsuits Soar, Especially for Website Accessibility Issues

Driven in large part by an exponential increase in legal actions over website accessibility, federal courts in 2018 entertained more than 10,000 lawsuits based on alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). According to tabulations by the law firm Seyfarth Shaw, 2018 saw a record high of 10,163 federal ADA lawsuits, up 34 percent from 2017 when there were only 7,663 such...
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CT Adopts $15 Minimum Wage Statewide

May 20, 2019
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Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has pledged to sign legislation passed Friday that would raise the state's minimum wage in stages to $15 an hour in 2023. The move affects about 330,000 state workers. Connecticut State Capitol[/caption] The current minimum wage is $10.10 an hour. The bill increases the minimum wage to $11 on Oct. 1...

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