by admin | Jul 31, 2015 | State Labor Law
The Michigan Supreme Court, in reviewing a suit against the state’s recent right-to-work law, which frees employees from having to join unions and pay full union dues, ruled 4-3 this week that public employee unions cannot collect agency fees either. The ruling...
by admin | Jul 29, 2015 | OSHA
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to amend its recordkeeping regulations to clarify that businesses have an “ongoing obligation” to maintain records on injuries and illnesses at...
by admin | Jul 28, 2015 | Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, Medicare, Obamacare
Using results from the 2012-2015 Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index (a daily national telephone survey of 507,055 adults aged 18-64), Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) analysts reported today that Obamacare has decreased the medically uninsured by 7.9...
by admin | Jul 27, 2015 | OSHA
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will grant a two-month window for training when its new standard on confined spaces in construction goes into effect next Monday, Aug. 3. Full enforcement will then commence on Friday, Oct. 2. In attention to...
by admin | Jul 23, 2015 | ADA, DOJ, EEOC
Today, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) jointly with the Department of Justice (DOJ) at an event at DOJ headquarters. During the event, the two agencies will announce...