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Patients’ Share Of Health Care Spending Is Shrinking

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Patients’ Share Of Health Care Spending Is Shrinking

By JAY HANCOCK, KHN Staff Writer— Consumer-driven medical spending may be the second-biggest story in health care, after the Affordable Care Act. As employers give workers more “skin in the game” through higher costs from purse and paycheck, the thinking goes, they’ll seek more efficient treatment and hold down overall spending. But consumers may not […]

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Labor Secretary Hilda Solis Leaves Legacy Of Worker Protections, Unfinished Business

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Labor Secretary Hilda Solis Leaves Legacy Of Worker Protections, Unfinished Business

By CHRIS HAMBY, Center for Public Integrity— With her resignation this week, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis leaves behind a department advocates say has adopted a renewed focus on enforcing worker safety laws but been unable to push through a number of long-sought regulations. The first Hispanic woman to hold the top post at a Cabinet-level agency, […]

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ILO Names Five Worst Nations For Suppressing Labor Organizing

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ILO Names Five Worst Nations For Suppressing Labor Organizing

ILO News– The International Labour Organization has named Argentina, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Fiji and Peru – out of 32 cases examined – as the most serious violators freedom of association and labor organizing. The ILO Committee on Freedom of Association examined cases concerning employers’ and trade unions’ rights to organize, collective bargaining and social dialogue. The […]

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US Public More Positive About The Economy, Views Of Job News Improve

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US Public More Positive About The Economy, Views Of Job News Improve

From the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press— Americans are hearing less negative news about the nation’s economy than they were just a month ago. Perceptions of news about other economic sectors – notably, the job situation – have improved as well. Most Americans continue to hear a mix of good and […]

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GOP Leaders Want Obama Administration To Require That Health Systems Communicate

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GOP Leaders Want Obama Administration To Require That Health Systems Communicate

By FRED SCHULTE, Center for Public Integrity— Four Republican House leaders want federal officials to suspend payments to hospitals and doctors who switch from paper to electronic health records, arguing the program may be wasting billions of tax dollars and doing little to improve the quality of medical care. In an 4 Oct. 2012 letter to Health […]

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Kauai Prosecuting Attorney’s Aloha Or Else Policy Costs Hawaiian County $120,000

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Kauai Prosecuting Attorney’s Aloha Or Else Policy Costs Hawaiian County $120,000

Kauai County Hawaii’s top law enforcement officer may have broken more laws than she has enforced. Kauai County Prosecuting Attorney Shaylene Iseri-Carvalho broke federal law, according to the EEOC. According to published reports, Iseri-Carvalho and has also entangled the county in other lawsuits. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced a $120,000 settlement was reached […]

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Senate Delays Putting Thousands Of Senior Federal Workers’ Financial Disclosures Online

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Senate Delays Putting Thousands Of Senior Federal Workers’ Financial Disclosures Online

The Senate has delayed part of a new federal financial disclosure rule that could lead to online postings of financial disclosure forms filed by senior federal officials, including many career employees. About 28,000 senior career federal employees, political appointees and high-ranking military officers file annual financial disclosure reports. The reports are public information had been […]

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Top VA Human Resources Official Quits Over Lavish Conference Spending

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Top VA Human Resources Official Quits Over Lavish Conference Spending

John Sepúlveda, assistant secretary for human resources and administration Veterans Affairs Department, resigned Sunday, 30 September 2012, after an investigation found that the VA overspent on two week long conferences in Orlando, Fla. The investigation found Sepúlveda had “abdicated his responsibilities” by not properly overseeing the conferences. Published reports said Sepúlveda had allegedly lied to […]

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Irish Workers Emigrate In Record Numbers Keeping Ireland’s Unemployment Down

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Irish Workers Emigrate In Record Numbers Keeping Ireland’s Unemployment Down

Irish workers are on the move again. This time it’s a 21st century wave of Irish immigration that’s taking away Ireland’s most skilled workers. More than 100,000 Irish workers are expected to leave to find jobs before end of 2013. Ireland’s unemployment rate was 14.7% as of August 2012. For many Irish workers the only […]

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Fiji Stops International Labour Organization From Investigating Union Complaints Of Repression

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Fiji Stops International Labour Organization From Investigating Union Complaints Of Repression

ILO News- The Fijian government stopped the International Labour Organization (ILO) from carrying out a mission to verify complaints of lack of freedom of association made by local trade unions, the ILO said in a statement issued on 19 September 2012. The government had initially agreed to the ILO mission, but then called it off […]

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