Under the Affordable Care Act, every employer must accurately identify its full-time employees to determine if it is subject to the employer mandate penalties and to calculate the amount of those penalties. Generally, a full-time employee is an individual that averages at least 30 hours of service per week. There are situations where ...
Lyndsey Barnett
Yesterday, the Treasury Department issued final regulations under the employer shared responsibility rule (or as we refer to it the pay or play mandate). The regulations delay the pay or play mandate for employers with between 50-99 full-time employees until 2016. The regulations also provide relief from the no coverage ...
HHS recently updated the Federal Poverty Limit (FPL) for 2014. Before the Affordable Care Act, when HHS would announce the annual update to the Federal Poverty Level (FPL), most employers could emulate Alfred E. Neuman with a “What, me worry?” kind of attitude. That is no longer the case. Employers need to follow the FPL ...