space remaining below an elevator car at the lowest stopping level.
For small shaft bottom spaces, specification EP 1 215 159 A2 discloses a toe guard for an elevator car, said toe guard comprising a movable panel provided with a locking device, and guide tracks mounted below the car in a substantially horizontal orientation. The panel, being guided and supported by the guide tracks, can be moved between a stowaway position and an operative position. In the stowaway position, the panel rests on the guide tracks in a substantially horizontal orientation, stowed away below the elevator car, where it can be locked in place by means of the locking device. In the operative position, the toe guard, supported by the guide tracks, is drawn out onto the landing floorLabor unions are poised to score the delay of an ObamaCare tax in the bipartisan budget deal emerging in the Senate.



The bargain under negotiation would make small adjustments to the healthcare law, including delaying the law's reinsurance fee for one year. The three-year tax is meant to generate revenue that will stabilize premiums on the individual market as sick patients enter the risk pool.

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The tax applies to all group health plans, but unions argue it will raise their healthcare costs while providing them no benefit.

The reinsurance tax figured prominently in discussions at a recent AFL-CIO convention, where workers passed a resolution demanding changes to ObamaCare.



The White House recently denied labor's top priority on ObamaCare, ruling that union health plans are not eligible for the new subsidies because they