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The NLRB is expanding its complaint against Google for allegedly retaliating against employee activists in what could turn out to be a precedent-setting decision.
No one votes for career federal civil service employees, but job protections empower them to pursue their personal policy preferences anyway.
The ARPA and COBRA The recently enacted American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) requires employers to pay 100% of the premiums required under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) for employees who are enrolled, or will enroll, in COBRA continuation coverage from April 1, 2021, through September 30, 2021. Employers can be reimbursed for the premium subsidy through a payroll tax credit, for which there is no income cap. In addition, the ARPA extends the COBRA election period and grants a second opportunity to elect COBRA continuation coverage for those qualified individual...
The White House announced today that President Biden will nominate attorney Gwynne Wilcox to the fifth and last vacant seat on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Ms. Wilcox is a...
VANCOUVER -- Mayors in the B.C. health region hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic are challenging each other to boost local vaccination rates. In a friendly competition, mayors across the Fraser Health region are seeing who can achieve certain immunization thresholds – and ultimately community immunity – first. The challenge will mark milestones at the 70, 75 and 80 per cent immunization marks. For now, those measurements will be calculated based on first doses of COVID-19 vaccines. "Fraser Health has seen the highest case numbers in our province and it is all hands on deck as we...