by Girish Anand | Dec 14, 2015 | ACA, Affordable Care Act
Failure to obtain health care insurance for yourself and your family members can be fairly costly in 2016. The penalty for an individual not having coverage is $695. For a family, it’s $695 per adult plus $347.50 per child, with a family maximum of $2,085. Such...
by Girish Anand | Dec 13, 2015 | Minimum Wage Law, Misclassification
U.S. District Judge Edward Chen has expanded the lawsuit against Uber to include even those drivers in California who failed to opt out of the company’s arbitration agreement. Previously, the class action suit against the ride-sharing service was limited only to...
by Girish Anand | Dec 13, 2015 | DOL
Suppose they issued a final rule and no one paid any attention. That’s kind of what’s happening with the Nov. 18 proposal by the Department of Labor (DOL) to give states a safe harbor to establish IRA-like retirement plans for companies and individuals...
by Girish Anand | Dec 11, 2015 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, CMS, Health Care Reform, Obamacare, PPACA
Though critics claim the goal of 900,000 new Obamacare sign-ups by Dec. 15 was modest to begin with, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced this week that the state and federal exchanges have already secured 1 million new enrollees. In all,...
by Girish Anand | Dec 9, 2015 | DOL, FLSA, WHD
The Wage and Hour Division (WHD), the wing of the Department of Labor (DOL) that enforces the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), not only has beefed up its membership and its enforcement activities, but is now also demanding liquidated (doubled) damages in its...