Compliance

Insurance agents are talking about reports that some Medicare helplines may absorb agents' clients.

The audits expand on a pilot project launched last year in Philadelphia and put more pressure on plan administrators to find former employees or their beneficiaries so that the benefits theyre owed can be distributed.

While such programs have been around for some time, the latest iterations go beyond allowing workers an afternoon off here or there to do volunteer work and try to match employees skills and talents with nonprofits.

The federal agency tasked with combating workplace discrimination is about to get a Republican majority for the first time in a decade, inspiring relief among employers and anxiety among workers rights advocates.

House Democrats asked Thursday why they have to find spending cuts and revenue sources to pay for reauthorizing the Children's Health Insurance Program when House Republicans are not yet requiring "pay fors" for their tax reform effort.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said his predecessor erred in 2014 by declaring that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits sex-discrimination, applied to transgender employees.