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August 11, 2014

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Elon Musk's SpaceX Sued Under WARN Act for No-Advance-Notice Layoffs

Laid-off employees at the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) in Hawthorne, Calif., are taking the Elon Musk-owned company to court over some 200-400 layoffs conducted on or about July 21. The vehicle for the lawsuit is the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, which mandates that companies with 100 or more employees within a 75-mile radius must give 60-days ...

August 10, 2014

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Oracle Sues Oregon Over ACA Web Problems | WWC

Oracle Corp. has filed suit against the Oregon agency that operated the state's now-defunct Obamacare marketplace website, in the process accusing Gov. John Kitzhaber of trying to systematically "vilify the company in the media." In a 21-page complaint filed with the U.S. District Court for Oregon, Oracle maintains the state continued to work with the company to fix problems...

August 8, 2014

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Judge Rules College Athletes Own Rights to Their Names and Images

In a case brought to trial against the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) by former UCLA basketball star Ed O'Bannon, a federal judge has ruled that Division 1 football and basketball players, who were included in the lawsuit, own the rights to their names, images and likenesses. Thus the NCAA and its constituent schools can no longer use their football and basketball pla...

August 7, 2014

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Most Uninsured Won't Have to Pay Obamacare Penalty | WWC

In addition to the "outs" provided in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) itself, the Obama administration has engineered 14 ways uninsured Americans can avoid paying a penalty for not having health insurance, according to today's Wall Street Journal. An analysis by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Joint Committee on Taxation has discovered that about 90 percent of the na...

August 7, 2014

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OFCCP Issues NPRM to Require Contractors' Detailed Pay Information

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has released a Fact Sheet, FAQs and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) requiring federal contractors and subcontractors to submit an annual Equal Pay Report on employee compensation. The NPRM would amend the regulations for Executive Order 11246, Equal Employment Opportunity, by adding a requirement that certain federal contract...

August 7, 2014

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Minnesota Cafe Fights Back: Adds Minimum Wage Charge to Bills

Earlier, we learned that business owners in the SeaTac community of Washington had found innovative ways to combat the effects of a mandated new $15-an-hour minimum wage -- charging for parking, ending free food, making employees pay for uniforms -- and now a Minnesota restaurant has taken the battle to the customers. The Oasis Cafe in Stillwater, Minn., has instituted a 35-charge fo...

August 5, 2014

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LinkedIn Owes $6M in Unpaid Wages | WWC

LinkedIn Corp. has agreed to pay $3,346,195 in overtime back wages and $2,509,646 in liquidated damages to 359 former and current employees working at company branches in California, Illinois, Nebraska and New York. An investigation by the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found that LinkedIn was in violation of the overtime and record-keeping provisions of the Fair Labor Sta...

August 5, 2014

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MSHA to Increase Frequency of Fines as a Deterrent | WWC

The Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) announced it has published a proposed rule that would amend its existing civil penalty regulations by simplifying the criteria for assessing health and safety violations and increasing emphasis on more serious safety and health conditions, thus providing improved safety and health for miners. "This proposed ru...

August 4, 2014

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HHS Seeks to Verify Obamacare Subsidized Enrollees' Eligibility

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is working to verify the eligibility of those who received subsidized health care policies during the open enrollment period that ended March 31 but had discrepancies on their applications. Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), consumers with discrepancies on their applications -- generally, unverified information -- have 90 days to resolve...

August 2, 2014

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Disapproval of Obamacare Rises to New Height | WWC

After remaining steady for several months, the share of Americans expressing an unfavorable view of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) rose to 53 percent in July, up eight percentage points from June to its highest level since the ACA was passed in 2010, according to the latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll. The poll also finds that a majority of the public continues to prefer that Congress work to ...

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