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With Enrollment Soon Closing, Obamacare Sign-ups Reach 4.7 Million

December 13, 2017

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Friday (Dec. 15) is the end of this year's open enrollment at HealthCare.gov, and the latest tally shows that 4.7 million people have so far signed up for Obamacare health insurance policies. In 2016, a total of 9.2 million enrolled, but that sign-up period stretched into January of this year. Of the 4,678,361 million who had signed up as of Saturday, Dec. 9, 1.4 million were new customers a...

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NLRB Seeks Input on 2014 Representation Election Rule: Keep It or Change It?

December 12, 2017

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Tomorrow, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will publish a Request for Information (RFI) in the Federal Register, asking for public input regarding the board’s 2014 Election Rule, which modified the board’s representation-election procedures located at 29 CFR parts 101 and 102. The board will seek information from interested parties regarding three questions: ...

December 11, 2017

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Head of NLRB Office of Appeals Named

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Peter B. Robb has appointed career NLRB attorney Mark Arbesfeld to be director of the General Counsel’s Office of Appeals. In his new position, Arbesfeld will lead the office that reviews appeals by employers, unions, and individuals who believe their unfair labor practice allegations have been wrongly dismissed by a regional office. Whil...

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HHS Announces Opioid Code-a-Thon Winners

December 9, 2017

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On Dec. 6 and 7, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) hosted a first-of-its-kind, two-day Code-a-Thon to help turn data into lifesaving solutions to the opioid epidemic. Fifty teams, comprised of three to five members of computer programmers each, public health advocates, and innovators worked for over 24 hours to create data-driven solutions that can have immediate and practical i...

December 8, 2017

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EEOC Releases Strategic Plan for 2018-2022

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has released for public comment a draft of its Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2018-2022, the agency announced today. The draft plan can be found at Regulations.gov. Comments must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. ET on Jan. 8, 2018. This draft plan has not been approved by the commission and is still under review. The Strategic Plan serves as a fr...

CHIP Program Funded Through End of the Year

December 7, 2017

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As part of a stopgap federal government spending measure passed today by both the House and Senate, funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) has been authorized through the end of 2017. Meanwhile, funding for the federal government will expire on Dec. 22, presumably giving Republicans long enough to pass their tax reform reconciliation measure. The CHIP provisions allows th...

December 7, 2017

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Health Care Spending Slows Nationally, Rises Individually

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reported on Dec. 6 that health care spending in 2016 slowed its growth rate, whereas individuals' out-of-pocket costs rose. In 2016 health care expenditures reached $3.3 trillion, an increase of 4.3 percent, following two years of rapid growth during the first years of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its expansion of individuals enrolling ...

Obamacare Enrollment Reaches 3.6 Million in Latest Tally

December 6, 2017

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As of Saturday, Dec. 2, Obamacare enrollment on the federal marketplace had reached 3.6 million with two weeks remaining before open enrollment closes on Dec. 15. A total of 823,180 people during the week ending Dec. 2 signed up for an insurance plan sold on HealthCare.gov, which serves most of the United States, according to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) officials. In...

December 5, 2017

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DOL Seeks Comments on Revising Its Tip Pool Regulations

The Department of Labor (DOL) is proposing to revise the agency's 2011 tip pool regulations to allow the sharing of tips with back-of-the-house employees provided everyone is paid the minimum wage. It has published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in the Federal Register, in which it states the agency is "proposing to rescind the parts of its tip regulations that bar tipsharing arrangem...

December 4, 2017

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New NLRB General Counsel Reins in Obama-era Rulings

In a memo issued Dec. 1, new National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Peter Robb ordered NLRB offices across the country to refer all cases to him that are based on rulings during the eight years of President Obama. Peter Robb, new NLRB General Counsel Robb wrote: "Significant legal issues include cases o...

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