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November 20, 2015

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Obamacare Risk Corridors Program to the Rescue?

As part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Congress included a provision called the "risk corridors program" that collects money from insurance companies making money and then distributes it to companies losing money. The program is set to run through 2016, but with a severe limitation. Congress in 2014 passed, and the president signed, a budget measure that cuts off supplemental funding for th...

June 26, 2015

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OSHA to Focus on High Employee Injury, Illness Rate in Hospitals, Nursing Homes

Targeting some of the most common causes of workplace injury and illness in the health care industry, the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced yesterday that the agency is expanding its use of enforcement resources in hospitals and nursing homes to focus on musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) related to patient or resident handling; bloodborne pathoge...

May 26, 2015

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DOL Issues Spring 2015 Regulatory Agenda

Following a Congressional mandate, the Department of Labor (DOL) -- along with all other federal regulatory agencies -- has released its semi-annual regulatory agenda and report. Prominent among anticipated regulations are three: a proposed regulation on slips, trips and falls in the workplace, Final Rule due this August; electronic reporting of workplace injuries and illnesses, Final Rule due...

July 21, 2014

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President Signs LGBT Anti-Discrimination Executive Order Amendments

President Obama this morning signed amendments to Executive Order 11246 prohibiting companies that conduct business with the federal government from discriminating against their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) employees. "In fact, more states now allow same-sex marriage than prohibit discrimination against LGBT workers," Obama said at the signing ceremony. &q...

July 19, 2014

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CMS Exempts U.S. Territories from Most Obamacare Rules

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has informed the U.S. Territories of American Samoa, Puerto Rico, American Samoa and the Virgin Islands that most Affordable Care Act (ACA) provisions do not apply to them. The provisions that do not apply to the territories are guaranteed issue, the community rating rules, the essential health benefits rule and the minimum medical loss...

July 16, 2014

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Minor Leaguers Sue MLB for Minimum Wages and Overtime Pay

A class action lawsuit on behalf of the minor leaguers of all 30 Major League Baseball (MLB) teams is seeking minimum wages plus overtime. As it stands, minor leaguers currently earn a maximum starting salary of $5,500 for toiling from spring to fall. The case, Senne v. MLB, is scheduled to be heard in September in San Francisco. “No one is saying that minor leaguers should be g...

July 15, 2014

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EEOC Releases Pregnancy Discrimination Enforcement Guidance

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today issued its first comprehensive update since 1983 on pregnancy discrimination enforcement guidance. The just-published "Enforcement Guidance on Pregnancy Discrimination and Related Issues" supersedes the 1983 publication of a Compliance Manual chapter on the subject and incorporates significant developments in the law during th...

July 14, 2014

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HHS Offers States $100 Million to Improve Medicaid

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is ponying up $100 for states to innovate and improve their Medicaid services and patient care. “Medicaid innovation is moving forward, and the new Medicaid Innovation Accelerator Program [IAP], announced in response to recommendations from governors, will give states the opportunity to even further strengthen their great work,&rdquo...

July 14, 2014

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Rodriguez Moves from OCR to USCIS

The man whose nomination to head the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the Deparment of Labor (DOL) was withdrawn by President Obama under pressure from Republicans is now headed to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to oversee the nation's immigration policies. Leon Rodriguez has been sworn in as the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) during a ceremony...

July 14, 2014

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UAW Opens Office Near VW Plant in Tennessee

After losing a unionization vote and agreeing not to attempt any organizing efforts for another year, the United Auto Workers (UAW) has nonetheless opened an office near the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., that rejected its organizing effort just months ago. Volkswagen Chattanooga released a statement saying the establishment of a union local "is a matter for the trade union ...

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