The IRS has released final regulations on how the new health care law defines “affordable” coverage. Generally speaking, workers must have access to affordable health care from their employers, or the employer faces a penalty. The IRS regulations now make clear that the government will deem a plan affordable so long as the individual worker’s
February 2013
NLRB Finds Employee Handbook Provision Illegal
By Bryan M. O'Keefe on
Posted in Labor Law & NLRB, Laws & Regulations
The NLRB has issued a series of decisions in recent months finding various employee handbook provisions unlawful. The Labor Board’s scrutiny of handbooks continued recently in another case, Direct TV.
In that case, the employer promulgated the following rule:
If law enforcement wants to interview or obtain information regarding a Direct TV employee, whether
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