New Pregnancy Bias Law Broadly Protects Workers, US Agency Says

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Monday proposed a rule endorsing a broad application of a new federal law extending stronger legal protections to pregnant workers.

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White House Wants Federal Workers Back To The Office By Fall

The Biden administration wants to “aggressively” get federal workers back in the office by September or October, according to an email to the Cabinet on Friday, as Axios initially reported. White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients wrote, “We are returning to in-person work because it is critical to the well-being of our teams and will enable us to ...

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Survey: 73% of Companies Struggle to Get Workers Back to the Office

Indeed, 73 percent of organizations surveyed report challenges getting workers to return to the workplace. Because of this pushback, 68 percent are considering or implementing talent strategies to increase on-site work.

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NIH Taps Jeanne Marrazzo To Succeed Fauci As Infectious-Disease Chief

Jeanne M. Marrazzo, a University of Alabama at Birmingham infectious-disease expert, will succeed Anthony S. Fauci this fall as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, federal officials announced last Wednesday.

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CMS Proposes Updates To The Hospital Price Transparency Rule

On July 13, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed key changes to the hospital price transparency rule. These proposed changes are meant to strengthen standards for disclosing hospital prices and provide more enforcement authority to regulators, and if finalized, will go into effect on January 1, 2024. This article provides an overview ...

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CMS Again Pauses Out-Of-Network Billing Arbitration After Judge Sides With Providers

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has again suspended arbitration of out-of-network payment disputes between providers and payers due to a court order that the agency’s implementation of the No Surprises Act had run afoul of proper notice-and-comment procedure. The decision stems from a Texas Medical Association (TMA) complaint filed in the U.S. ...

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