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The health care bill debate seems all consuming. At least in terms of press coverage.

But yesterday, the House of Representatives passed a defense spending bill (H.R. 3326) that, according to the DC Employment Law Update:  "prevents most defense contractors and subcontractors from forcing their employees or independent contractors to sign, as a condition

Although I’ve been sounding the alarm bells for the last two months or so, on the new COBRA subsidy provisions, I’ve had informal discussions with various colleagues that suggest that some employers are either ignorant of the new rules or do not believe that the rules apply to them. Here are three areas why most

Among employment law professionals and human resource personnel, the last year has been full of changes.  Among the more technical changes are thenew COBRA Subsidy provisions that were passed with the stimulus bill earlier this year.

April 18th is a big deadline for some of the imCopyright 2009, Daniel A. Schwartzplementation of the provisions — providing notices to some former employees

In yesterday’s post, I talked about the significant changes to COBRA that are in the new economic stimulus law. Today’s post focuses on another, less-publicized provision in the new law regarding whistleblowers.  Courtesy: Library of Congress

Employers that expect to receive funds from the stimulus package need to be aware of the provisions so that you can be in