by Chris Schrader | Jul 28, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, Blog, In The News
Not sure what to make of the Hobby Lobby Case? Join the crowd. We have been inundated in the past weeks with interpretations of the decision. Here are just a few: Nancy Pelosi – “…five men could get down to specifics of whether a woman should use a...
by Chris Schrader | Jul 25, 2014 | Blog, Human Resources, In The News
“No One Should Have to Choose Between Caregiving and Work” is the title of an article by Jody Gastfriend, VP of Senior Care Services at Care.com, that appears in this week’s Harvard Business Review Blog. She makes a poignant and passionate argument for greater...
by Chris Schrader | Jul 24, 2014 | Blog, Human Resources, In The News
The Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) protects the jobs of employees of companies with more than 50 full-time employees who miss work due to reasons covered under the Act. The maximum amount of leave provided under the Act is 12 weeks. The Americans with...
by Chris Schrader | Jul 23, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, Blog
Two decisions regarding the permissibility of federal subsidies granted to ACA Federal Insurance Marketplace enrollees were released yesterday. The two courts arrived at opposite conclusions. The far more significant court, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, heard...
by Chris Schrader | Jul 22, 2014 | Blog, Human Resources
Why did a very successful Coca-Cola ever launch New Coke? Why did people invest their kids’ college funds in Beanie Babies? Surely anyone could have seen these efforts could only end in ruinous failure. Hind sight is 20/20 because human beings are, more often...