by Girish Anand | Nov 14, 2017 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, IRS
President Trump may be beating the drum to end the Obamacare individual mandate with looming tax reform legislation (to little avail so far), but the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is already gearing up to enforce both that mandate and the employer shared...
by Girish Anand | Nov 14, 2017 | NLRA, NLRB
Peter Robb has been confirmed as general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), becoming the gatekeeper who decides which cases the board hears. Pro-business attorney Robb replaces Richard Griffith, a pro-labor Obama appointee whose term expired with...
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by Girish Anand | Nov 10, 2017 | EEOC
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) made significant progress in managing the pending inventory of charges in fiscal year 2017, the agency reports. EEOC says its offices deployed new strategies to more efficiently prioritize charges with merit and more...
by Girish Anand | Nov 9, 2017 | Personnel Concepts
In week one of Open Enrollment for 2018, 601,462 people selected plans using the HealthCare.gov platform. As in past years, enrollment weeks are measured Sunday through Saturday. Consequently, week one was only four days long this year — from Wednesday to...
by Girish Anand | Nov 8, 2017 | ACA, Affordable Care Act
Health insurance giant Humana is cutting 1,300 positions, offering early retirement to another 1,150 employees and suing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for breach of contract over the Obamacare risk corridor provision, as it exits from offering...
