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January 19, 2015

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OSHA Sets Whistleblower Case Milestone | WWC

For the first time since it's had jurisdiction over the nation's 22 federal whistleblower statutes, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has investigated more than 3,000 cases in a year. The fiscal year 2014 total of 3,060 establishes a new benchmark. More than half of the cases investigated (57 percent) were safety-related and filed under the OSH Act's anti-retaliation cla...

January 17, 2015

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CMS Obamacare Architect Tavenner to Step Down | WWC

Though not subject to the scathing public indictment that Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sibelius faced for the Obamacare rollout, Marilyn Tavenner, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), is resigning a year after her boss Sibelius. She will be replaced on an interim basis by newly hired Obamacare czar Andy Slavitt. Tavenner was directly responsible f...

January 15, 2015

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DOL's Home Health Care Worker Rule Truncated Even More | WWC

Following its decision in December that vacated a rule by the Department of Labor (DOL) to force third-party employers to pay home health care workers minimum wages and overtime, the District Court for the District of Columbia yesterday threw out Section 552.6 of the same rule, which sought to narrow the definition of "companionship services" in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The court r...

January 14, 2015

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MSHA Final Rule Mandates Use of Proximity Detection Systems in Mining Ops

Today, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) announced a final rule that will require operators of underground coal mines to equip continuous mining machines with proximity detection systems. It will be published in the Federal Register on Jan. 15 and become effective 60 days thereafter. "Simply put, the proximity detection final rule will save lives and has the potential to dramati...

January 14, 2015

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DOL, Florida Partner Against Worker Misclassification

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Officials from the Department of Labor (DOL) and the Florida Department of Revenue have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the goal of protecting the rights of employees by preventing their misclassification as independent contractors or other non-employee statuses. Under the agreement, both agencies will share information and coordinate law enforcement. The MOU represents a new e...

January 13, 2015

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Aetna to Institute $16-an-Hour Wage Floor | WWC

Some 5,700 employees of Aetna Inc., the health insurance provider, will see their wages rise to $16 an hour as the company prepares to become "a much more consumer-oriented business" with "a better and more informed work force," according to CEO Mark T. Bertolini. Chalk part of the company's decision up to Obamacare, as Aetna now finds itself more actively involved in the individual insurance ...

January 13, 2015

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OSHA Recordkeeping Annual Summary Due by Feb. 1 | WWC

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) 300A injury and illness summary form must be posted in a conspicuous workplace location by Feb. 1 and kept up until April 30. The 300A is a summary of the information from the OSHA 300 injury and illness recordkeeping form (which shouldn't be posted, just the summary form). The summary form must be signed by a company executive to verif...

January 12, 2015

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U.S. Chamber Sues to Overturn Quickie Election Rule | WWC

Citing violations of the First Amendment, the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and various sections of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the Chamber of Commerce of the United States has sued to have the recent "Quckie Election" rule governing unionization efforts overturned. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Dec. 12 promulgated its long-anticipated "Final Rule to Mod...

January 10, 2015

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Health Care Subsidies Could Cost Consumers at Tax Time | WWC

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in charge of enacting Obamacare, and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in charge of enforcing the very same Affordable Care Act (ACA), have issued a statement about providing help at tax time for those who signed up for health care through one of the ACA exchanges. What they're not directly admitting is that, if a consumer received a subsidy ...

January 8, 2015

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Obamacare Enrollment Up to 6.6 Million for 2015 | WWC

Since Open Enrollment began on Nov. 15, nearly 6.6 million consumers selected a health insurance plan or were automatically re-enrolled in the Federally Facilitated Marketplace (FFM), according to a post on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) blog. The Week 7 snapshot (as HHS calls it) includes the New Year’s holiday; consumers continued to shop and select the plan that best meet...

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