How is the Affordable Healthcare Act Impacting Business Employment Practices?

The Affordable Care Act and its website, healthcare.gov, have been the topic of numerous conversations, articles, letters to the editor, editorials, cartoons, late night talk show host ...

ACA: Who Should Pick Up the Tab?

Larry David, on his TV show Curb Your Enthusiasm, has a gift for finding humor in awkward situations. One running gag is about Larry having dinner with a friend who always seems to ...

Baby Boomers, Contingent Workers and the Affordable Care Act

The idea of hiring part-time, temporary and contingent workers to save costs is not new, yet the trend is definitely increasing. As the economic uncertainty of recent years has caused ...

The First Big Shoe Drops Under the ACA

Yesterday, the Internal Revenue Service published 277 pages of final regulations on the “employer mandate” of the Affordable Care Act. It is the first of two ACA “big shoes” ...

The Affordable Care Act: Strategic Decision- Compliant or Pay to Play

Thanks to Uncle Sam for delaying the Affordable Care Act penalty phase for employers with over 50 employees till 2015, staffing companies have another year to better understand how ...

The Affordable Care Act: 2014 and Beyond

In its attempt to reach orbit, the Affordable Care Act has undergone a bumpy ride in terms of both altitude and velocity. The insurance exchanges (now called marketplaces) have seen ...

The Skinny on Skinny Plans: Part 2

Last week, I gave a brief overview of the concept of “skinny” healthcare plans, a middle-of-the-road option for staffing firms to offer their temps. This week I address the risks ...

The Skinny on Skinny Plans

The Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate may have been delayed by a year, but come 2015, staffing firms will have had to decide whether to offer insurance or pay the penalties. ...

RPO in Healthcare

According to the 2012 Staffing Industry Analysts Healthcare Industry Staffing Buyers Survey, 28 percent of healthcare buyers currently use recruitment process outsourcing, with another ...

ASA Explains the Look-Back Rule

Ed Lenz, senior counsel of the American Staffing Association, led the staffing industry’s discussions with the Obama administration on the proposed look-back rules for determining ...

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