{"id":7319,"date":"2013-09-12T11:26:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T11:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affinityhrgroup.com\/2019\/05\/important-employer-deadline-under-health-reform\/"},"modified":"2013-09-12T11:26:45","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T11:26:45","slug":"important-employer-deadline-under-health-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworkplaceadvisors.com\/important-employer-deadline-under-health-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Important Employer Deadline Under Health Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the new health care law, starting\u00a0October 1, 2013, employers with 1 employee or more must provide notices about the upcoming Health Insurance Exchanges to their employees or face a fine.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 20px;\">Fortunately, the US Department of Labor has created the notice for you to use.\u00a0 You can\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 20px;\">find it here: \u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dol.gov\/ebsa\/pdf\/FLSAwithplans.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.dol.gov\/ebsa\/pdf\/FLSAwithplans.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 20px;\">Your only requirement is to provide this document (either in print or electronic format) to all employees by\u00a0October 1, 2013\u00a0and within 14 days of hire for all future employees.\u00a0 Regardless of your number of employees and regardless of whether you provide health insurance coverage, you are required to provide this notice to all employees (part-time and full-time).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 20px;\">This is only a notification &#8211; unless employees ask for information about your existing health coverage, there\u2019s no further obligation at this time. \u00a0However, your employees are sure to have questions about the new health insurance options and what coverage they will have access to.\u00a0 For all of those questions, please direct your employees to the government\u2019s website:\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthcare.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.healthcare.gov<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 20px;\">\u00a0or their toll free number: 1-800-318-2596<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 20px;\">, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 20px;\">If you have any questions or concerns about this requirement, I encourage you to check out\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthcare.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.healthcare.gov<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 20px;\">\u00a0or give us a call at 1-877-660-6400.<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 20px;\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Claudia St. John, SPHR<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>President, Affinity HR Group, LLC<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the new health care law, starting\u00a0October 1, 2013, employers with 1 employee or more must provide notices about the upcoming Health Insurance Exchanges to their employees or face a fine.\u00a0Fortunately, the US Department of Labor has created the notice for you to use.\u00a0 You can\u00a0find it here: \u00a0http:\/\/www.dol.gov\/ebsa\/pdf\/FLSAwithplans.pdf Your only requirement is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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