by Girish Anand | Dec 26, 2013 | Affordable Care Act, CMS, Health Care Reform, HHS, Obamacare, PPACA
Even as it extended the deadline to midnight Dec. 24 for those seeking health coverage starting on Jan. 1, 2014, HealthCare.gov officials posted a message on the site that anyone who started enrollment by the deadline but couldn't finish due to heavy traffic...
by Girish Anand | Dec 26, 2013 | OSHA
Whistleblowers covered by one of 22 statutes administered by the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will now be able to file complaints online. The online form will provide workers who have been retaliated against an...
by Girish Anand | Dec 23, 2013 | Health Care Reform, Obamacare, PPACA
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced early today that it was extending the already-extended Dec. 23 deadline for healtha insurance policies starting Jan. 1, 2014, by one more day. In a statement, Julie Bataille, director of the Centers for...
by Girish Anand | Dec 23, 2013 | EEOC
In a decision endorsed by all its judges, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit decided Friday that employers cannot challenge – and courts cannot review – the adequacy of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) informal...
by Girish Anand | Dec 22, 2013 | EEOC
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), in three recent opinion letters, has clarified that businesses must have clear reasons and policies for not hiring individuals with criminal pasts, especially if the not-hire decision results in a disparate impact in...
