Articles by Girish Anand

January 20, 2016

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WARN Saga Involving Republic Windows Comes to a Slow Resolution

Republic Windows and Doors, located in Goose Island, Ill., abruptly shuttered its manufacturing facility in 2008, declared bankruptcy and relocated to Iowa using another name. Workers were let go with no notice, violating the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act. The union notified the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which sought redress of grievances in terms of wag...

January 20, 2016

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UnitedHealth, Humana Bleed Red for Obamacare

UnitedHealth Group Inc., the nation's largest health insurer which last year said it might withdraw from the Obamacare insurance exchanges, this week increased projected 2016 Affordable Care Act (ACA) losses from $400 million to $500 million. Humana Inc. also disclosed that it was setting up a "premium deficiency reserve" for its anticipated 2016 ACA losses. Aetna Inc. recently revealed losse...

January 19, 2016

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Supreme Court to Rule on Obama's Immigration/Executive Authority

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on the legality of President Obama's twin executive orders of November 2014 that aimed to block deportation of illegal immigrations and also offer millions of them work permits. Obama's plans were blocked first by a federal district judge in Texas and then by the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, which kept the judge's origina...

January 18, 2016

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OSHA Form 300A Must Be Posted from Feb. 1 to April 30

Covered employers must post OSHA's Form 300A, which summarizes their work site's total of job-related injuries and illnesses during the prior calendar year, from Feb. 1 to April 30 of each year. Employers with 10 or fewer employees, as well as those businesses in specific low-hazard industries, are normally exempt, but due to changes in reporting requirements that took effect in January 2015, ...

January 17, 2016

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Slips, Trips, Falls Rule Withdrawn

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has withdrawn its Walking Working Surfaces and Personal Fall Protection Systems rule, commonly referred to as "slips, trips and falls," from review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). It's not clear what the reason for the withdrawal is, but OSHA appears committed to finalizing the rule, which was first proposed in 1990 and the...

January 14, 2016

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Obamacare Open Enrollment Shows Slight Uptick in January

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) yesterday reported 74,000 new sign-ups on HealthCare.gov from Jan. 3 to Jan. 9, bringing total federal Obamacare enrollments to 8.7 million for the 38 states covered by the online exchange. With another 2.7 million people having signed up on the state exchanges thus far, total enrollment for 2016 stands at about 11.4 million, with open enrollme...

January 13, 2016

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Insurers Cry Foul Over Alleged Obamacare Special Enrollment Abuse

Health insurers are bombarding Obamacare administrators with complaints that people are waiting to get sick before buying health insurance and then dropping it once they are cured. They want the rules and verification system for special enrollment period (SEP) sign-ups to be clarified and tightened. “Many individuals have no incentive to enroll in coverage during open enrollment, but can wait ...

January 12, 2016

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HealthCare.gov Adds Transgender Explanation Page

The federal Obamacare marketplace, HealthCare.gov, today launched a transgender page, offering both application assistance and health-care rights explanations. On the application front, it advises transgender persons to use the names that appear on their Social Security card to avoid triggering "inconsistencies" or "data matching issues" error messages that prevent completion of their sign-up....

January 12, 2016

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EEOC Issues New 'Digest of EEO Law'

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on Monday announced publication of the latest edition of its federal sector Digest of Equal Employment Opportunity Law, which is available online. The digest now includes hyperlinks so that stakeholders can easily access the full decisions which have been summarized. This quarterly publication, prepared by EEOC's Office of Federal Operations ...

January 11, 2016

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Medicaid Enrollment Eclipses the Marketplaces in Total Numbers

Through October 2015, the Obamacare provision that allows states to enroll anyone earning less than 138 percent of the federal poverty level into Medicare has netted 13.5 million new enrollees, eclipsing marketplace sign-ups -- both state and federal -- by a couple of million people. (The 13.5 million number also include enrollees into the Children's Health Insurance Program, or CHIP.) The pr...

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