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 ...

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

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. ...

The Customer Is Always Right

Last week, Colleen Mills and Bob Livonius both submitted posts to the Staffing Stream about MSPs in healthcare staffing.  Mills is the founder of an association that built its membership ...

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 ...

Obamacare: A Lawyer’s Personal Perspective

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act might just as easily be called the Employment Lawyers’ Full Employment Guarantee Act. This unduly complex and confusing piece of legislation ...

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 ...

Is the ACA 12-Month Look-Back Actually More Like Three Months?

The penalties and discrimination rules of the Affordable Care Act are prompting many staffing firms to consider offering to all full-time temporary employees the comprehensive health ...

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