by Girish Anand | Oct 24, 2013 | Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, IRS, Obamacare, PPACA
Due to a conflict between the date that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said individuals must have health insurance or face a tax penalty and the date that the Marketplaces will cease selling coverage, the administration has pushed back the penalty date by six...
by Girish Anand | Oct 24, 2013 | Personnel Concepts, State Labor Law
Two laws coming into force on Nov. 1 in Oklahoma affect and clarify existing laws governing tobacco use in the workplace. New 21 Okla. Stat. § 1247 prohibits lighted tobacco products in any form in indoor workplaces. It does allow employers to establish smoking...
by Girish Anand | Oct 23, 2013 | Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, HHS, PPACA
A National Business Group on Health (NBGH) survey released yesterday shows that more than half of the employees questioned believe health care costs will rise this year and in succeeding years under Obamacare, while almost a third of those surveyed also think the...
by Girish Anand | Oct 23, 2013 | Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, Obamacare, PPACA
Over the weekend, NSA secrets-leaker Edward Snowden claimed to have hacked into HeathCare.gov, the federal Obamacare Marketplace site, and said he could fix it in exchange for immunity against prosecution for stealing government files. Though Snowden was spurned,...
by Girish Anand | Oct 22, 2013 | NLRB
As previously discussed here, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) counted days closed because of the government shutdown over funding issues as "holidays," and thus it announced it would extend any filing deadlines by the length of the shutdown....