Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts
Monday, April 18, 2016

Creating a Competitive Economy: The Verizon Strike

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President Barack Obama Photo credit:  Wikipedia On Friday President Obama issued an Executive Order to increase competition in the mar...
Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Workers’ Compensation and the Cancer Moonshot 2020

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Official portrait of Vice President of the United States . (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) An exciting initiative, Cancer Moonshot 2020, is ...
Friday, April 17, 2015

EEOC Issues Proposed Rule on Application of the ADA to Employer Wellness Programs

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Employee wellness is a good thing for workers' compensation, especially when paying physicians baaed on an outcome than than by the hou...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

'We Suck' on Minimum Wage, U.S. Labor Chief Says; Christie Has 'Head in the Sand'

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Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.bloomberg.com New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has “got his head i...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

IRS prepping for Obamacare employer mandate in 2015

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What will happen with the employer mandate ? Will the consequences be that the workers' compensation carriers expand coverage to em...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Appeals Court Deals Major Blow to Implementation of Affordable Care Act

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Today's post is shared by WSJ Law Blog and comes from blogs.wsj.com A federal appeals court on Tuesday dealt a serious blow to the Ob...
Friday, July 18, 2014

A Push to Give Steadier Shifts to Part-Timers

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Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com As more workers find their lives upended and their ...
Monday, December 9, 2013

Tech Giants Issue Call for Limits on Government Surveillance of Users

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Surveillance of workers is a two-way sword. As companies complain about it, they employ surveillance against their own workers to deny wo...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

Meet the 32 Senate Republicans Who Voted to Continue LGBT Discrimination in the Workplace

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Today's post was shared by Mother Jones and comes from www.motherjones.com Louie Palu/ZUMA, Jay Mallin/ZUMA, Jeff Cook/ZUMA, Mich...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

Wages Stagnate as U.S. Manufacturers Reap Record Profits

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It appears that the "great rebound" in US wages has not happened. Wages set rates of compensation benefits paid, so the lower t...
Saturday, November 23, 2013

November 22, 1963 – A Personal Reflection and Alternative History If JFK Had Lived

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Today's post is shared from Jay Causey, Esq. of the Washington State Bar. Jay’s Collection of JFK Memorabilia      I recall only a...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Why does health care cost so much in America? Ask Harvard's David Cutler

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The cost of medical treatment continues to increase yearly. A major component of the Workers' Compensation benefits system is now the...

ObamaCare's Union Favor

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Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from online.wsj.com The Affordable Care Act's greatest hits keep comin...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Extension of Benefits for Jobless Is Set to End

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Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com WASHINGTON — Unless Congress acts, during the last we...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

Obama Selects Health Policy Advocate as Surgeon General

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Today's post was shared by RWJF PublicHealth and comes from www.nytimes.com President Obama nominated Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, an ea...
Friday, November 15, 2013

White House rejects asbestos bill

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Today's post was shared by Linda Reinstein and comes from www.politico.com President Barack Obama ’s administration came out agai...