Is it possible that the Cadillac Tax will be a major health spending cost ‘deflator’?
A number of large employers in the retail, restaurant, agriculture, manufacturing and other predominantly low-wage employee industries have had to reduce employee hours in order to reduce their exposure to PPACA employer mandate penalties and the cost of offering employer-sponsored group medical insurance coverage. “In the first lawsuit of its kind, a proported class of approximately 10,000 workers at Dave & Buster’s, the restaurant chain, filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York (Marin v. Dave & Buster’s, Inc., S.D.N.Y., No. 1:15-cv-03608) alleging that their employer reduced the workers’ hours to keep them from attaining full-time status for the purpose of avoiding the requirement to offer them health coverage under the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) employer mandate.”
This will be an important case for large employers to watch. READ MORE HERE
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