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September 15, 2017

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EEOC Warns of 'Chaos' if Wellness Rule Is Tossed

Appearing in court over a federal judge's ruling that its wellness rule for company health plans penalized non-participating employees, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) this week argued that vacating the rule would create "chaos" for companies eyeing health plans for 2018. In August, U.S. District Judge John Bates sided with the AARP in its lawsuit against the EEOC, alleging ...

September 13, 2017

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Bernie Wants Medicare for All, While Two Senators Push Repeal and Replace

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I.-Vt.) has introduced legislation to establish a single-payer nationwide system of health care, commonly dubbed Medicare for All, while Sens. Bill Cassidy (R.-La.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) are trying to beat the odds with a last-ditch repeal and replace effort. Problem with the two senators' effort is that the reconciliation process, by which the Obamacare demise could...

September 12, 2017

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Proposed Merger of EEOC and OFCCP Dies a Quick Death in the Senate

The Trump administration's plan to merge the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) was abruptly rejected by the Senate Appropriations Committee on first blush. The Committee Report noted: The Committee rejects the budget’s proposal to begin plans to merge the OFCCP with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The Comm...

September 12, 2017

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SCOTUS Again Restores President's Travel Restrictions

With a federal appeals court order set to take effect today, Justice Anthony Kennedy, acting for the full Supreme Court, restored President Trump's travel ban, and thus some 24,000 refugees covered by the appeals court ruling will have to wait until Oct. 10 (or later) to hear their fate. That's the date the full court will consider the travel restrictions ordered by President Trump early in hi...

September 12, 2017

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NLRB on Office-Closing Spree

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is in various stages of assimilating and evaluation public comments received on its plan to close offices in five cities across the country. According to a press release, "This proposal is being considered in connection with the Agency’s ongoing efforts to reduce costs by decreasing office space and by taking advantage of new technologies and workplace...

September 7, 2017

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Repeal and Replace Back from the Dead?

Sen. John McCain (R.-Ariz.), who cast the third and decisive no vote the last time Obamacare repeal and replace was considered in the Senate, seemed to flip-flop on Sept. 6 when he said he would consider supporting a new measure called Graham-Cassidy, which has yet to make it into print. The effort, named after its authors, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R.-S.C.) and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R.-La.), would es...

September 5, 2017

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Trump Ends DACA Program But Leaves It in Place for Six Months

Speaking on behalf of President Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions today announced the end of the Obama-era program known as DACA -- Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals -- which allowed undocumented aliens who arrived here as children to stay, work and study without fear of deportation. Sessions called DACA a constitutional "overreach" that had to go to restore "the constitutional order a...

September 1, 2017

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District Court Trumps Appeals Court on Obama Overtime Rule

A month before the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals was to consider the preliminary injunction against the Obama-era overtime rule raising the salary threshold for exemption to $47,476 a year, the Texas District Court that issued the preliminary injunction against the rule made it permanent. This means the process must start all over again, with a new appeal filed by the Trump administration i...

August 31, 2017

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Trump Administration to Cut Funding for Obamacare Advertising, Promotion

The Trump administration is slashing advertising for enrollment in Affordable Care Act (ACA) policies for 2018 from $100 million to $10 million, and cutting funding for "navigators," individuals who help people sign up, from $62.5 million to $36 million, CNBC reports today, citing phone calls from Health and Human Services (HHS) officials. Those officials and others in the administration claim...

August 31, 2017

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HHS Restores Work Requirement for Temporary Assistance for Needly Families

Done away with by the Obama administration in 2012, the requirement to work to participate in the Temporary Aid for Needy Families (TANF) program has been restored by the Trump administration in an announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services on Aug. 30. “Reemphasizing the work requirements in the welfare program means once again promoting gainful employment and economic indepen...

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