by admin | Sep 11, 2014 | OSHA
The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today announced a final rule requiring employers to notify OSHA when an employee is killed on the job or suffers a work-related hospitalization, amputation or loss of an eye. The...
by admin | Sep 10, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, IRS
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has uploaded a series of videos on YouTube featuring Commissioner John Koskinen, among others, explaining various provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA, aka Obamacare). Among the topics covered are the small business health care...
by admin | Sep 9, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, HHS, Obamacare, PPACA
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) says its audit of a demonstration program for Medicaid expansion in Arkansas shows that the program is not cost-neutral, which violates standards for allowing Medicaid experimentation. The Department of Health and Human...
by admin | Sep 8, 2014 | U.S. Supreme Court
Just this past week, a federal court in Louisiana ruled that that state’s ban on same-sex marriages was constitutional, breaking a trend set by 20 other courts that had ruled state bans unconstitutional. Though that decision will now go before a circuit court...
by admin | Sep 7, 2014 | Federal Labor Law, FLSA
The Oakland Raiders have entered into a $1.25 million settlement, yet to be court approved, with their Raiderettes — sideline cheerleaders — over back pay. The cheerleaders filed a class action lawsuit in 2013, alleging the football team had failed to...
