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Employment Law – The Affordable Care act- countdown to compliance for employers, Supreme Court opens 8 labor cases, India’s new labor reforms and more.

The Affordable Care Act—Countdown to Compliance for Employers, Week 11: Rethinking ACA Compliance Strategies Involving Reference Pricing Models and “MVP” Arrangements by Alden J. Bianchi published on JDSupra

Under the Affordable Care Act’s rules governing employer shared responsibility—which are codified in Internal Revenue Code § 4980H—where an applicable large employer makes an offer of group health plan coverage that is both “affordable” and provides “minimum value” to substantially all of its full-time employees, the employer is not liable for assessable payments under Code § 4980H… [ Read More ]

Justices Begin Term With Eight Cases On Labor and Employment Law Docket by Kevin McGowan published on Bloomberg BNA

The U.S. Supreme Court opened its new term Oct. 6 with eight labor and employment law cases on the docket, raising a variety of issues involving discrimination, pensions and benefits, wage and hour, and federal employees’ rights… [ Read More ]

India- Labour reforms, at last: PM Modi’s moves will give a fillip to job creation in SMEs by R Jagannathan published on First Biz

Big-bang labour reforms have moved up Narendra Modi’s priority list, now that two key assembly elections are over. If implemented, they will end up cranking up the manufacturing jobs machine like never before… [ Read More ]

Segregating Worktime For Purposes Of The “Contractor Minimum Wage” by John E. Thompson published on JDSupra

The U.S. Labor Department’s voluminous final regulations “Establishing a Minimum Wage for Contractors” under Executive Order 13658 have now been published. The provisions and related commentary occupy nearly 100 pages in the Federal Register…. [ Read More ]