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March 2015

EMPLOYERS CAN NO LONGER REIMBURSE EMPLOYEES FOR THE COST OF INDIVIDUAL HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE

| March 2015
Some employers have not provided group health coverage to some or all of their employees. Instead of providing group health coverage, some of these employers have chosen to reimburse employees for the cost of individual coverage that those employees purchased directly from insurance companies. Prior to 2014, the IRS permitted employers to reimburse employ...
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PRESIDENT OBAMA’S UNILATERAL IMMIGRATION PLAN CREATES A CONFRONTATION WITH CONGRESS

| March 2015
On November 20, 2014, President Obama in an address to the nation announced his immigration plans to defer deportation for as many as 5 million immigrants in the country illegally. He announced that his unilateral action is necessary because the Republican-led House of Representatives has failed to pass a Senate-approved immigration plan for more than a y...
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NLRB OPENS UP EMPLOYER EMAIL SYSTEM TO UNION ORGANIZING

| March 2015
On December 11, 2014, the NLRB overruled its previous doctrine set forth in Register Guard, and ruled that employees have a Section 7 right to use their employer’s email system for union organizing purposes during their non-working time. Purple Communications, 361 NLRB No. 126 (December 11, 2014). In its 3-2 ruling, with the two Republican members d...
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