As of February 1, 2016 the Shared Responsibility Employer Mandate aspect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) reporting requirements became effective for all employers.
The mandate involves a multi-step process for employers and a filing with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which went into effect at the beginning of this year. This will also require an additional figure entered into employee W-2 forms showing the total value of coverage during the calendar year.
Topics: Affordable Care Act, HR compliance, aca, obamacare, IRS
Since 2015 there have been a number of major changes with the Affordable Care Act (ACA), such as the delay of the employer mandate and the Cadillac Tax, as well as the death of the automatic enrollment provision.
Other changes have not been anticipted, as well. According to a recent report in CNNMoney, for example:
Topics: Affordable Care Act, HR compliance, aca, obamacare, IRS
California businesses and employers often feel assailed by the ever increasing labor laws California and the federal government continually add.
In addition, their seems to be the inevitable increase in costs associated with the new labor laws in the form of direct costs to employees, costs to the state, and increased costs of compliance and reporting.
Topics: HR compliance, aca, california labor law, labor law compliance, employee lawsuits, family leave
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has ushered in major changes in workforce planning and HR management for numbers of employers.
Topics: Affordable Care Act, HR compliance, aca, HR management practices, labor law compliance
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), or simply the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is the new healthcare reform law. The Affordable Care Act represents the most profound regulatory change to the federal healthcare system in the United States since Medicaid and Medicare.
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