
ACA’s Post-Constitutional Fate
Last week, a federal district court judge declared the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to be unconstitutional in Texas v. United States. The Dec. 14 decision is explained in a very logical ...

The ongoing healthcare legislation saga
According to Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck, “Laws are like sausages; it is better not to see them being made.” That was surely true of the struggle over the recently proposed ...

Trump’s First Executive Order Takes Aim at ACA
President Trump’s first executive order announces a broad policy to seek the prompt repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and to implement other strategies to achieve healthcare ...

Why Worry About the NLRB’s Browning-Ferris Decision?
About a month ago, the National Labor Relations Board, which sets rules for union organizing and other labor relations matters, revised its long-established test for the joint employment ...

ACA: The IRS Won’t Deem Clients the Common Law Employers of Temporaries
Since the IRS released its regulations regarding the ACA’s employer mandate, some staffing clients have been concerned that the agency might deem contingent workers assigned ...

Supreme Court Upholds Nationwide ACA Subsidies and Penalties
Today, the United States Supreme Court, in its King v Burwell decision, dashed the hopes of many employers for relief from the Affordable Care Act by upholding an IRS regulation that ...

Free Tools For ACA’s Applicable Large Employer Calculation
Starting Jan. 1, 2015, the Affordable Care Act mandates insurance and/or penalty costs for every controlled group of employers that qualifies as an “applicable large employer” (ALE.) ...

Busting myths: Capped Hours ACA Risk in a No-Health-Plan Firm Part 2
When it comes to minimizing the costs of the Affordable Care Act, managing employees’ hours and long-term tenure is an available method, especially when the employer does not sponsor ...

Busting myths: Capped Hours ACA Risk in a No-Health-Plan Firm, Part 1
When it comes to minimizing the costs of the Affordable Care Act, managing employees’ hours and long-term tenure is an available method, especially when the employer does not sponsor ...

Courts Disagree on ACA Exchanges, Subsidies and Employer Mandates
In yesterday’s Staffing Stream, I discussed the decision in the Halbig v. Burwell case by the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals. That decision threw out an IRS rule that ...