by Girish Anand | Sep 18, 2013 | Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, PPACA
Citing compliance costs with the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Walgreens on Jan. 1, 2014, will begin making cash payments to its 160,000 affected employees to buy their own health insurance on the Marketplaces instead of providing and managing their benefit program for...
by Girish Anand | Sep 17, 2013 | ADA, State Labor Law
Effective Oct. 1, employers in Maryland with 15 or more on the payroll must provide pregnant employees with added reasonable accommodations going beyond those afforded by the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA)....
by Girish Anand | Sep 17, 2013 | DOL
Fulfilling a promise by President Obama to ensure that direct care workers receive "a fair day's pay for a fair day's work," the Department of Labor (DOL) announced a final rule today extending the Fair Labor Standards Act's (FLSA's) minimum...
by Girish Anand | Sep 16, 2013 | Health Care Reform, Obamacare, PPACA
The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) last week published two Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRMs) concerning the large-business reporting requirements under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The IRS made headlines on July 2 when it threw up...
by Girish Anand | Sep 14, 2013 | E-Verify, State Labor Law, USCIS
Though exempting employees who work for fewer than nine months, North Carolina law now mandates that state, city and county governments all require all contractors and subcontractors to use the federal E-Verify system for employment eligibility verification. Gov. Pat...