by Girish Anand | Feb 29, 2016 | Affordable Care Act, CMS, Health Care Reform
After big insurers like UnitedHealthcare threatened to leave the Obamacare exchanges because of abuse of the system, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced this past week that it was creating a Special Enrollment Period (SEP) Confirmation...
by Girish Anand | Feb 25, 2016 | DOL
The Department of Labor (DOL) has announced a proposed rule to implement Executive Order 13706, Establishing Paid Sick Leave for Federal Contractors. The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) was published on Feb. 25, 2016, in the Federal Register. Executive Order...
by Girish Anand | Feb 25, 2016 | EEOC
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) describing specific actions that federal agencies must take to comply with their obligation to engage in affirmative action in employment for individuals with...
by Girish Anand | Feb 24, 2016 | MSHA, OSHA
No doubt dead on arrival in the Republican House, the Obama budget request nonetheless includes healthy increases for hiring Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) investigators. The Feb. 9 budget request...
by Girish Anand | Feb 23, 2016 | EEOC
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has standardized its policies and procedures across all field offices so that employees can now receive copies of their company’s position statement regarding the charge at hand. When a charge of discrimination...