Employers ordered to notify workers of cuts to birth-control coverage

The Washington Times ^ | July 17, 2014 | Tom Howell Jr

[mdittmar]

The Obama administration ordered employers Thursday to notify their workers if they plan to cut birth-control coverage from their health plans in the wake of the Supreme Court’s “Hobby Lobby” decision.

Labor Department officials announced the policy just a day after Senate Republicans filibustered a bill that would have overturned the justices’ ruling, which said closely held corporations can refuse to insure contraceptives they object to on moral grounds.

Congressional Democrats cheered the administration’s move as an important step to give workers a chance to know what obstacles they may face in obtaining free contraception.

[PrincessB]

So this is why FB was bombarded today with posts about it not being your employer’s business if you want birth control pills in the health insurance they provide.

[Aria]

That’s what I’d like to know. Under what authority should employers obey Obama?