July 5, 2013
Health Care Law’s Employer Mandate Delayed Until 2015
On July 2, 2013, Mark J. Mazur, the assistant secretary for tax policy at the U.S. Treasury Department, announced a one-year delay, until January 1, 2015, in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandate that employers with 50 or more full-time equivalent employees provide health care coverage to their full-time employees or pay steep penalities.
April 1, 2012
Jury grants EEOC award of $240 Million for disability discrimination.
Jury grants EEOC award of $240 Million for disability discrimination. In a particularly egregious set of facts, the jury determined that the Company had violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) by creating a hostile environment and imposing discriminatory conditions of employment, and acted with “malice or reckless indifference” to their civil rights.
