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September 5, 2014

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HealthCare.Gov Website Hacked

Hackers evidently broke into a server for the Obamacare HealthCare.Gov site in July, planting a malicious piece of software and hoping to launch a Dynamic Denial of Service (DDS) attack. Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) say no personal data were compromised. "Our review indicates that the server did not contain consumer personal information; data [were] not transm...

September 4, 2014

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HealthCare.Gov Contractor Gets Six-Month Extension | WWC

Declaring that it would be foolish to switch contractors during an open-enrollment period, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has extended by six months the web technology services contract of Accenture, which was called in to fix the many glitches that plagued the launch of HealthCare.Gov in November 2013. The next open-enrollment period to sign up for health care on th...

September 3, 2014

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Obama Names New Chair for EEOC | WWC

President Obama has named Jenny R. Yang Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to succeed outgoing Chair Jacqueline Berrien. Yang is currently vice chair of the EEOC, and was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 25, 2013. Yang will be the first Asian-American Chair of the EEOC. "It is an honor and privilege to have been named by President Obama to se...

September 3, 2014

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NLRB and Ecuadorian Ministry Sign Collaborative MOU | WWC

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility of Ecuador have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) designed to strengthen their collaborative efforts to provide Ecuadorian workers, their employers, and Ecuadorian business owners in the United States with information, guidance, and access to education regarding their rights and responsib...

September 3, 2014

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EEO-1 Reports for Large Employers, Federal Contractors Due Sept. 30

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has completed its mailing of the 2014 EEO-1 survey notification letters. The EEO-1 is an annual survey that requires all private employers with 100 or more employees, and federal government contractors or first-tier subcontractors with 50 or more employees and a contract/subcontract of $50,000 or more, to file the EEO-1 report. Th...

August 29, 2014

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Pennsylvania Becomes 27th State to Expand Medicaid | WWC

Pennsylvania, where Gov. Tom Corbett has long sought changes in how the federal health care system is run, has finally agreed to expand its Medicaid coverage under terms of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but will let private insurers run the program for the state with 100 percent federal funding. Pennsylvania thus becomes the 27th state to expand its Medicaid program, enabling 2.2 million...

August 28, 2014

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NLRB Rules a Facebook 'Like' Is Protected, Concerted Activity

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently ruled that a Facebook discussion on an employer's tax withholding calculations and an employee's "like" of the discussion constituted "protected, concerted activity" under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). When employees at Triple Play Sports Bar and Grille in Connecticut discovered that they owed more i...

August 28, 2014

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EEOC and Mexico to Sign Memorandum of Understanding | WWC

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will sign a national Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United Mexican States on Friday, Aug. 29,\ at EEOC headquarters in Washington D.C. The MOU is designed to further strengthen collaborative efforts to provide immigrant, migrant and otherwise vulnerable Mexican workers and their employ...

August 26, 2014

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OSHA, NIOSH Release Recommendations on Temporary Worker Safety

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) today released a publication called Recommended Practices for use by staffing agencies and host employers to better protect temporary workers from hazards on the job. OSHA chief David Michaels announced the publication during his speech at the Voluntary Protection...

August 26, 2014

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EEOC Weighs in On Religious Garb and Grooming at Work | WWC

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which enforces Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, recently issued explicit guidance on "Religious Garb and Grooming in the Workplace: Rights and Responsibilities." The bottom line is that employers must respect and accommodate religious garb and grooming in their places of business unless they can prove that doing so wo...

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