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June 21, 2018

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CHIP Survives Senate Rescission Vote

A move by the Trump administration to claw back nearly $15 in spending from the massive March 23 budget bill has failed in the Senate in a vote eerily similar to last summer's vote on repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The rescission measure would have hit the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) hardest at $7 billion. From CHIP, the administration’s proposal would have canceled ...

June 21, 2018

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White House Proposes Merging of Labor and Education Departments

In a long-rumored move, President Trump during a White House staff meeting today proposed merging the Departments of Labor (DOL) and Education (DOE) into a single branch to be known as the Department of Education and the Workforce. Department of Education Efforts in the past to do similar agency reshuffling have been...

June 19, 2018

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Final Rule on Association Health Plans

The Department of Labor (DOL) today issued a final rule expanding the definition of employer under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) to enable the formation of Association Health Plans (AHPs) that can span cities, counties and states. Phase-in begins on Sept. 1, 2018. The final rule states: This document contains a final regulation under Title I of the Employee Retirement ...

June 15, 2018

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DOL Launches Apprenticeship.gov Website

The Department of Labor (DOL) today announced the launch of Apprenticeship.gov. Apprenticeship.gov delivers on the Task Force on Apprenticeship Expansion's recommendation to "compile apprenticeship information in a single, online, centralized website." The website will evolve into a robust one-stop platform to connect job seekers, job creators, training providers, parents, teachers, and fede...

June 15, 2018

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Uptick in Harassment Complaints from #MeToo Movement Yet to Happen, EEOC Says

Watch our YouTube video on preventing harassment in the workplace. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) this week convened its Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment (details here), during which Acting EEOC Chair Victoria Lipnic confirmed that the agency has seen no uptick in sexual harassment claims since the #MeToo movement began -- but added that it could still happen....

June 14, 2018

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DOL Fiduciary Rule Now Officially Dead

The scant remaining life support for the Fiduciary Rule crafted by the Obama Department of Labor (DOL) ran out yesterday as the Trump administration declined to ask the Supreme Court to review an injunction blocking the rule's implementation. In March, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-to-1, vote vacated the rule, saying the DOL had overstepped its authority. In May, the same cou...

June 11, 2018

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EEOC Panel Focuses on Preventing Workplace Harassment

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment in the Workplace reconvened today to hear from expert witnesses on “Transforming #MeToo Into Harassment-Free Workplaces” at a meeting open to the public. “Our co-chairs’ report on harassment laid the groundwork for the launch of a renewed effort to prevent harassment,” stated Acting EEOC Chair Vic...

June 8, 2018

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NLRB Announces Internal Ethics and Recusal Review

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB( today announced that it will undertake a comprehensive review of its policies and procedures governing ethics and recusal requirements for board members. This initiative will ensure that the NLRB’s stakeholders—and the American people generally—can have full confidence in the integrity of the Board and its recusal processes. ...

June 8, 2018

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Trump DOJ Announces It Will No Longer Defend the ACA in Court

Faced with a challenge by 20 attorneys general in a federal court in Texas, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is going to trial with no defense from the Trump administration's Department of Justice (DOJ). The case rests on the constitutionality -- or unconstitutionality -- of the health care act now that the individual mandate has been withdrawn as a penalty for those lacking insurance. The a...

June 7, 2018

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OMB to Disclose Plans for Restructuring of HHS, USDA

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is expected to unveil plans this month to move several welfare-related functions from the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Specifically, the restructuring would relocate the $70 billion food stamp program from Agriculture to HHS, and it would also transfer the school nutrition program ...

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