Health Reform Act Makes Significant Changes for Employers and Their Health Plans By John L. Barlament, Kirk A. Pelikan, and Eric Rumbaugh
Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP
In March, President Obama signed into law major healthcare reform legislation that is likely to affect every citizen and every employer in the country: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. The PPACA and the Reconciliation Act will affect nearly every group in the healthcare arena: large employers, small employers, individuals, insurers and medical providers, as well as suppliers and users of contingent labor. This article focuses mainly on changes for midsize and large employers.
The biggest change for suppliers of contingent labor appears to be that they must now either ensure that the contingent labor staff has health coverage available or pay a fine for failing to provide this coverage. Regardless of whether the supplier chooses to pay the fine or provide the coverage, ...
"Our clients are looking at their resource needs in a more strategic way not just for the immediate project at hand but in a way they could use a person or skill long term. And this analysis is across every skill set they are consuming."
--Joel Capperella, Yoh's vice president of customer solutions
Contingent workforce programs have gone beyond the tactical. It's more than simply reacting ...
What limit on length of assignment has your organization set for contingent workers?
Nebraska Jumps on the IC Misclassification Bandwagon The saga on independent contractor misclassification continues. Nebraska follows three dozen other states that have cracked down on companies that try to trim payroll costs by illegally classifying workers as contractors. In mid-April the state's governor, Dave Heineman, signed into law a bill ...
Joint Employer Liability In a recent case, Vondriska v. Cugno, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reinstated a Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) wage and hour collective action against a professional employer organization (PEO) and its client. The issue in the district court was whether the PEO was the "employer" ...
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In March, President Obama signed into law major healthcare reform legislation that is likely to affect every citizen and every employer in the country: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. The PPACA and the Reconciliation Act will affect nearly every group in the healthcare arena: large employers, small employers, individuals, insurers and medical providers, as well as suppliers and users of contingent labor. This article focuses mainly on changes for midsize and large employers. 
"Our clients are looking at their resource needs in a more strategic way not just for the immediate project at hand but in a way they could use a person or skill long term. And this analysis is across every skill set they are consuming."
