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Darden Restaurants, the company that owns the Red Lobster and Olive Garden chains, saw its net income plunge by 37% in the wake of bad publicity about its policies regarding the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. According to the Associated Press, “revamped menus and new ad campaigns” fell flat as the corporate giant […]
Continue reading …By JULIE APPLEBY KHN Staff Writer— It’s back to the future for insurers, which plan to sharply limit the choice of doctors and hospitals in some policies marketed to consumers under the health care law, starting next fall. Such plans, similar to the HMOs of old, fell into disfavor with consumers in the 1980s and 1990s, […]
Continue reading …By RICK BELL, workforce.com– Since the financial meltdown hit and my retirement investments largely were blown to bits, I joke with my kids that they’d better buy a house on a big enough plot of land for me to comfortably locate my future digs. Nothing fancy, I tell them; enough room in the backyard for […]
Continue reading …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 […]
Continue reading …ILO News– The International Labour Organization (ILO) has called on its 185 member states to adopt minimum wages as a way of reducing working poverty and providing social protection for vulnerable employees. “Minimum wages help protect low-paid workers and prevent a fall in their purchasing power, which in turn hurts domestic demand and the economic […]
Continue reading …By DAVID HEATH, Center for Public Integrity— Controversial payday lenders that claim to be owned by Indian tribes and offer payday loans over the Internet have agreed to stop practices that federal authorities say deceive borrowers and violate federal laws. The agreement, filed in federal court, could save borrowers hundreds of dollars on each payday loan. […]
Continue reading …By JAY HANCOCK, Kaiser Health News— Policymakers took heart from another year of relatively slow public health care spending growth in 2011, documented by government statisticians and disclosed in a report released Monday, January 7, 2012. But one aspect of moderating public health expenditures — and the only category showing outright decline — could cost more than it saves. Hit by recession […]
Continue reading …By MICHELLE ANDREWS, Kaiser Health News— For some people, the promise of employer-provided health insurance plan is reason enough to take a job or stay put in one. But unexpected events – a corporate bankruptcy or sale, for example – can undermine the security of on-the-job coverage and leave both employees and retirees with few affordable […]
Continue reading …Discrimination Claims The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission in Canada says that one in ten workplace complaints of discrimination is related to pregnancy. Pregnancy-related discrimination claims in the United States have jumped by 35 per cent in the last decade. Since 2001, US courts have paid out $150 million in damages in pregnancy discrimination cases. ILO […]
Continue reading …By COLIN WOOD, Government Technology— During the past two years, many Republican governors held off taking steps to create health insurance exchanges in the hope that Mitt Romney would win the 2012 presidential election and repeal the Affordable Care Act. And now, some states, particularly those run by Republican governors, are faced with less time […]
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