by admin | Sep 5, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, HHS
Hackers evidently broke into a server for the Obamacare HealthCare.Gov site in July, planting a malicious piece of software and hoping to launch a Dynamic Denial of Service (DDS) attack. Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) say no personal...
by admin | Sep 4, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, CMS
Declaring that it would be foolish to switch contractors during an open-enrollment period, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has extended by six months the web technology services contract of Accenture, which was called in to fix the many glitches...
by admin | Sep 3, 2014 | EEOC
President Obama has named Jenny R. Yang Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to succeed outgoing Chair Jacqueline Berrien. Yang is currently vice chair of the EEOC, and was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 25, 2013. Yang will be...
by admin | Sep 3, 2014 | NLRB
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility of Ecuador have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) designed to strengthen their collaborative efforts to provide Ecuadorian workers, their employers, and...
by admin | Sep 3, 2014 | EEOC
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has completed its mailing of the 2014 EEO-1 survey notification letters. The EEO-1 is an annual survey that requires all private employers with 100 or more employees, and federal government contractors or...
