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October 7, 2014
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Gag Order Placed on Insurers Who Test Revamped HealthCare.Gov Site

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has invited health insurers to test the revamped HealthCare.Gov site today but only if they "acknowledge the confidentiality of this process." Despite the gag order, which states that the testers "will not use, disclose, describe, post to a public form, or in any way share Test Data with any person or entity, including but not limited to the...
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October 7, 2014
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Wal-Mart, Other Retailers Cut Health Care for Part-Time Workers

Joining Target, Home Depot and others, Wal-Mart -- the nation's largest retailer -- has announced plans to eliminate health insurance for some of its part-time workers (those who work fewer than 30 hours a week) in order to curb health care expenses. Wal-Mart employs 1.4 million full- and part-time workers, but only about 30,000 of them will be affected. The move will be implemented come Jan. ...
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October 6, 2014
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By Refusing to Hear the Issue, SCOTUS Allows Gay Marriage in Five More States

The Supreme Court today refused to consider whether states can ban gay marriages and in so doing upheld rulings by judges in five states that had struck down bans on gay marriages. As a result, Virginia, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Utah and Indiana will now be obliged to allow gay marriages, bringing the total number of states so aligned to 24 from 19. In addition, another six states are bound by fed...
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October 6, 2014
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USCIS Launches myE-Verify for Employees | WWC

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director León Rodríguez has announced the launch of myE-Verify — a new website designed for employees.  myE-Verify is a one-stop shop for employees to create and maintain secure personal accounts and access new features for identity protection, according to USCIS. “Since its inception, E-Verify has provided employees with valuable online tools ...
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October 6, 2014
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WHD Finally Releases Enforcement Statistics | WWC

Once the Obama administration took office in 2009, the Department of Labor (DOL) quietly abandoned the practice of releasing yearly enforcement statistics, but its Wage and Hour Division (WHD) finally righted the ship recently when it released data for fiscal years 2009 to 2013. The results show a general uptick from the Bush years  in both back wages collected and enforcement hours, reflectin...
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October 3, 2014
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Home Care Worker Rule Delay Confirmed | WWC

A few days after labor and advocate organizations beseeched the Department of Labor (DOL) not to delay or give up on it, the DOL Solicitor, M. Patricia Smith, announced that the proposed amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to incorporate home care workers won't be ready by November, as the department's regulatory agenda had forecast. She now says the DOL "hopes" to implement the ru...
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October 3, 2014
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USCIS Introduces Form I-9 Desktop Widget | WWC

Employers can now download and install a USCIS-provided desktop widget for filling out Form I-9, the worker eligibility document that all new hires must complete within three days. The widget takes you to an online Form I-9, but remember that employers still must complete Section I and employees Section II. In the end, you need to print out and retain a hard copy. DOWNLOAD THE I-9 WIDGET Th...
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October 2, 2014
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McCormick & Schmick's Settles Discrimination Lawsuit for $1.3 Million

McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurants Inc. and McCormick and Schmick Restaurant Corporation will pay $1.3 million and provide significant equitable relief to settle a pattern-or-practice race discrimination lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency has announced. The EEOC filed the lawsuit in 2008, charging that McCormick & Schmick's engaged in...
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October 2, 2014
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Alabama Partners with DOL on Misclassification | WWC

Officials of the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) and the Alabama Department of Labor today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to protect the rights of employees by preventing their being misclassified as something other than employees, such as independent contractors. The MOU represents a new effort on the part of the agencies to work together to protect the rights of...
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October 1, 2014
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7-Eleven Hit in Largest ICE Forfeiture Case | WWC

Five franchisees and operators of 7-Eleven, Inc. (7-Eleven) stores located throughout Long Island and Virginia entered guilty pleas Monday at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York. The defendants pled guilty to committing wire fraud and concealing and harboring illegal aliens employed at 7-eleven stores. The guilty pleas stem from an extensive investigation by U.S. Immigration and C...
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