In what labor and employment lawyers, legal scholars, and union officials are calling a ground-breaking case, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) has for the first-time filed a complaint to protect the rights of employees to express their opinions, with co-workers, about supervisors and employers on social network sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. The NLRB’s complaint specifically argues that a company cannot fire an employee for criticizing a supervisor online to co-workers. Continue Reading Do Virgin Islands’ Employees Have The Right to Criticize Supervisors on Facebook?
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Congress Provides for COBRA Extension
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At the beginning of 2009, employers, insurers and COBRA administrators revised their procedures and notices to implement the COBRA subsidy provided under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (“ARRA”). These provisions allowed certain eligible individuals to elect COBRA coverage and pay only 35% of the COBRA premium for up to 9 months. Subject to certain exceptions, employers then collect the other 65% of the premium from the federal government through a credit claimed on the employer’s payroll tax return. This COBRA subsidy was a temporary measure that was to be available only to individuals who were involuntarily terminated from employment and were entitled to elect COBRA coverage on or prior to December 31, 2009. On December 19, 2009, President Obama signed the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010, which includes an amendment extending the COBRA subsidy (the “Subsidy Amendment”). Continue Reading Congress Provides for COBRA Extension