Starbucks Debuts Timeline for Upping Benefits at Unionized Cafes
Starbucks Corp. announced a timeline for granting pay increases and additional benefits to workers at unionized stores who were excluded when they were first rolled out in 2022.
The Biden administration plans to issue a final rule on Thursday to curb the sale and availability of “short-term limited-duration insurance” plans, which critics say provide low-cost, but low-quality, coverage that skirts consumer protections in the Affordable Care Act.
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Medicare coverage of Novo Nordisk A/S’s blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy for heart disease is putting even more pressure on employers to cover the pricey drug that some are finding unaffordable.
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Starbucks Corp. announced a timeline for granting pay increases and additional benefits to workers at unionized stores who were excluded when they were first rolled out in 2022.
Nursing homes, hospice providers, and inpatient psychiatric facilities would all see Medicare pay hikes next year under proposals released Thursday by the Biden administration.
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Checkers Drive-In Restaurants Inc. must face federal civil rights claims filed by a franchisee’s manager who was allegedly fired after complaining about racial discrimination, a federal court said.
The Ninth Circuit won’t hear an appeal by
Kaleida Health lost its bid to block participants in its pension plan from serving subpoenas on Mercer Investment Consulting and Nixon Peabody LLP, but it can try again in a different court.
Yellow Corp.'s fight over $7.8 billion in pension fund withdrawal liability claims will be handled in the course of the trucking company’s Chapter 11 case, not in arbitration, a Delaware bankruptcy judge ruled.
The court granted an employee and her daughter’s motion for summary judgment in part and denied United Healthcare Insurance Co.'s motion for summary judgment in this ERISA and Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act action. Kathleen A. v. United Healthcare Ins. Co., 2024 BL 101873, D. Utah, 2:20-CV-00814-JNP-DAO, 3/26/24
The court granted an employee’s motion for judgment on the administrative record and denied Lincoln National Life Insurance Company’s motion for judgment on the administrative record in this ERISA action seeking reinstatement of long-term disability benefits for her severe psychiatric condition. Parks v. Lincoln Nat’l Life Ins. Co., 2024 BL 96083, E.D. Mich., 22-12814, 3/21/24
The court granted Reliastar Life Insurance Company’s motion for summary judgment and denied an EmployBridge LLC employee’s motion for summary judgment on this action challenging the denial of his short and long-term disability benefits for vascular dementia with behavioral disturbance.
Cottingim v. Reliastar Life Ins. Co., 2024 BL 89950, M.D. Fla., 8:22-cv-1235-CEH-CPT, 3/18/24
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