by admin | Sep 17, 2015 | ACA, Affordable Care Act
The data are in post-Obamacare, and for all of 2014 the uninsured rate fell to 10.4 percent, down from 13.3 percent the year before the Affordable Care Act (ACA) took effect. In concrete terms, the number of Americans without health insurance dropped from almost 42...
by admin | Sep 15, 2015 | DOL, Federal Labor Law, FLSA, WHD
The Department of Labor (DOL) Final Rule amending regulations regarding domestic service employment, which extends Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) protections to home care workers employed by third-party providers, had an effective date of Jan. 1, 2015. The department...
by admin | Sep 11, 2015 | State Labor Law
Ellen Pao, who sued Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins for gender discrimination for not promoting her and then firing her for complaining, has officially given up. Pao lost her highly publicized case earlier this year and mulled an appeal. But now...
by admin | Sep 11, 2015 | DOL, Minimum Wage Law, Overtime Rules
Public commentary on the proposed new overtime rule closed the Friday before Labor Day, but not before some 25,000 comments were received by the Department of Labor (DOL). The rule would raise the minimum salary necessary to be exempt from being paid overtime on an...
by admin | Sep 10, 2015 | Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said he was “grateful to the court” and a White House spokesman mocked it as “just another partisan attack,” but a lawsuit by the House of Representatives against the administration over Obamacare funding has...