July 2015

The Affordable Care Act is in place and extensions are expiring. Restaurants and other businesses must prepare for compliance or face monetary consequences including penalties and fines. The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) recommends employers pay attention to worker classifications, taking care to document non-employee status, because misclassifying employees as independent contractors will create recordkeeping nightmares […]

Unlike other developed countries, the United States has no countrywide paid sick leave laws. President Obama is trying to change that, calling for a national paid sick leave bill in his 2015 State of the Union Address. Democrats re-introduced legislation for it in February 2015 but haven’t been able to enact it. As of June […]

Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, has been America’s hope and bane since it passed a few short years ago. It’s been rife with controversies, delays, complications, and legal maneuvers. Its original purpose was healthcare reform to lower and control the cost of healthcare for everyone and prevent insurance companies from denying coverage because of pre-existing […]

King v Burwell, the lawsuit challenging the legality of subsidies for marketplace insurance premiums, was decided on June 25th by a 6-3 vote in the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), favoring the full intention of the law rather than the literal interpretation of the sentence in question. The Supreme Court’s majority opinion stated […]