Why the pay or play decision leaves staffing firms with tricky choices
In the time since I last wrote about the “pay or play” decision (Staffing Industry Review, July/August 2014), the world of Affordable Care Act compliance has changed a lot. Many staffing firms settled on compliance strategies, only to see those strategies overtaken by events […]
At the dawn of the staffing industry, staffing firms had few legal issues to worry about, but employment law has grown so much it is now a significant burden on every staffing firm. However, handling employment law issues for clients contributes greatly to the value staffing firms deliver. Here is a round-up of some current […]
By George Reardon
Already delayed once, the employer mandate portion of the Affordable Care Act takes effect January. Firms with fewer than 100 full-time employees in 2015 and 50 full-time employees after 2015 will be exempt from the ACA employer mandate, greatly simplifying their ACA burdens. Larger firms, though, will have to be ready to […]
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. For the moment, at least, there’s a middle-ground option that many staffing firms are considering.
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Recent actions of the Obama Administration have delayed, waived or liberalized several key provisions of the Affordable Care Act, adding to the list of ACA provisions that had already fallen by the wayside since the law’s enactment in 2010. The recent action most significant to […]
On July 2, the Treasury Department announced that the employer mandate portion of the ACA has been delayed until 2015. While this gives staffing firms an extra year to work out whether they will offer their temps insurance or pay fines, they […]
On July 2, the Obama Administration informally announced its intention to postpone the Affordable Care Act’s employer pay-or-play mandate and its related reporting features by one year, from Jan. 1, 2014, to Jan. 1, 2015. On July 9, the IRS issued a formal notice of the action, which did not materially add to the […]
These days, staffing firms often use their customers’ contract forms when sealing a deal. Often, those contracts lack some clauses that staffing firms shouldn’t do business without. Staffing firms’ own contract forms often omit important and useful terms. Regardless whose contract you start with, there are six terms that […]
