
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 ...

Halbig v. Burwell Case May Bring Down the ACA
Today, the second most important federal court in the United States released a decision that may practically dismantle several essential parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). If it ...

Hobby Lobby Case Lets Closely Held Firms Avoid Religiously Objectionable ACA Mandate
Today, the United States Supreme Court, by a 5-4 vote along strict conservative/liberal lines, confirmed that for-profit closely held corporations are protectable under the Religious ...

Misclassifying Workers to Avoid Healthcare Mandates Can Backfire
While the Affordable Healthcare Act doesn’t go into full effect until 2014, the employee count to determine which employers meet the 50 full-time employee threshold for the Act’s ...