New Orleans We are on a countdown to the open window for enrollment and renewals under the Affordable Care Act, so now the employer hustles and scams are getting more and more scary and sketchy. The Wall Street Journal dryly reported the other day in an article about companies scrambling to avoid penalties that “The companies …
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Eggs Widening Class Gap in Health Care Insurance
Houston Here’s the very good news for women. Apple and Google, the mega-billion dollar worldwide tech conglomerates have announced that they are now going to pay up to $20,000 to allow their female employees to freeze and store a couple of their eggs so that they can postpone having children until it works better for …
Walmart Dropping Part-timers Maybe a Win for 30,000 Workers
New Orleans I stand second to no one as a critic of Walmart’s employee and labor relations policies, but it’s hard for me to join the boo-bird chorus about the company’s latest Scrooge-like action in dropping part-time workers averaging less than 30 hours per week. The company just may have done most of them a favor …