Labor Department Kills Bush Administration ...
November 20, 2009
News: The Labor Department has killed a Bush administration rule that would have cleared the way for mutual fund companies to offer direct one-on-one investment advice through their affiliates to defined-contribution plan participants.
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Employers See Some Improvement, but Not Enough, ...
November 19, 2009
News: Latest version says large employers with more than 50 full-time employees would be assessed a fine up to $750 for every employee who works more than 30 hours a week if any employee received health insurance subsidies from the government.
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Employers Shift Health Care Reform Fight to ...
November 10, 2009
News: The group Employers for a Healthy Economy, which is made up of 11 employer associations including small-business groups and the US Chamber of Commerce, spearheaded a $10 million, 19-state media blitz the week before the House vote. Though ...
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Public Option Back at Center Stage as Health Care ...
November 2, 2009
News: After months of work, House Democratic leaders last week finished cobbling together a 1,900-page reform bill, pulling provisions from measures that three House committees passed this summer while amending, dropping and adding others, ...
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Latest Health Reform Bill Rankles Business ...
October 29, 2009
... introduced so far and contains a public option plan, more stringent employer mandates, changes to ERISA and business penalties that would go toward paying ...
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United Auto Workers' Voluntary Employee Beneficiar ...
October 20, 2009
News: The new VEBA will not officially open for business until January 1, but the association--with more than $37 billion in assets--has a chief investment officer and is looking for managing directors to oversee equity, fixed income and risk man
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Some Firms Get Tougher on Workers' Health Habits ...
October 19, 2009
News: A few employers have relegated employees who decline to take better care of themselves to health plans that provide less coverage.
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High Court Seeks Obama Administration's Views on ...
October 6, 2009
News: The US Supreme Court asks the administration for its opinion on whether it should review a ruling upholding San Francisco's controversial health care spending law.
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NFL Quarterback Michael Vick Ordered to Repay ...
October 1, 2009
News: Vick will repay at least $416,461 that the Labor Department said he took from a pension plan sponsored by a company he owned to help pay off debts tied to his 2007 dogfighting conviction.
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Court Rules Retirees' Quest to Regain Health ...
September 4, 2009
News: Retirees of a former LG Philips Displays USA Inc. plant in Ohio have been given a second chance to pursue their 2-year-old lawsuit seeking to restore their retiree health benefits, which were terminated in May 2006 after their former ...
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