There's a great opportunity here to launch into a polemic against
government mandating employer - based health care.
If you were to ask them a different question, which is what if
the government mandated all employers get out of the business, would you prefer that?
I think the issue is
the government mandating employers to pay for something.
Not exact matches
Fifty - nine percent of respondents supported Hillary Clinton's plan, which includes the individual
mandate, when informed that the plan also includes
government assistance for those who need it, requirements on
employers to play or pay, and increased
government programs.
The U.S. and Papua New Guinea are the only countries among 185 nations and territories that hadn't imposed
government -
mandated laws requiring
employers to pay mothers while on leave with their babies, according to a study released last year by the United Nations» International Labor Organization.
Because of that, should the
government mandate that every
employer pay for all of their employees to receive pharmaceuticals to help them sleep?
The
government itself appealed to the high court and asked it to hear the case regarding the ACA
employer - provided contraception
mandate.
Because the birth control cases all focus on a 1993 federal law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the Constitution, the Justices will face questions about whether the
mandate to provide free access to 20 forms of birth control drugs or devices, sterilization, screenings, and counseling imposes a «substantial burden» on religious freedom of nonprofit
employers with religious objections to some or all contraceptives, whether the
mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the
government, and whether an attempt to provide an exemption from the
mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the
government's policy interest.
In May it sued the
government in federal court in Brooklyn over the
mandate, saying it «unconstitutionally attempts to define the nature of the church's religious ministry and would force religious
employers to violate their consciences.»
In addition, the
government must make good on a previous promise to establish a new rule regarding enforcement of the
mandate for religious
employers by March 2013.
I don't think the federal
government should have the authority to
mandate that
employers create a lactation room.
No doubt many of you in the audience who work do have access to paid leave, but certainly the lower socio - economic groups never will as long as access to such an entitlement is decided on by the
employer rather than
mandated by the
government.
The Texas Association of Business calls it «inappropriate,» saying the relationship between the
employer and employee should be handled privately, not through a
mandate from the federal
government.
Private
employers are
mandated to provide lactation rooms under the Affordable Care Act, and
government offices are beginning to catch up.
While Cuomo and the Senate Republicans want uniform harassment policies in state and local
government, the Assembly proposal would
mandate minimum standards for harassment policies for public and private
employers and broaden the types of workers who would be protected under the state's anti-harassment laws.
Republicans attempted to defund its implementation, [375][392] and in October 2013, House Republicans refused to fund the federal
government unless accompanied with a delay in ACA implementation, after the President unilaterally deferred the
employer mandate by one year, which critics claimed he had no power to do.
Estimates vary, but in general each employee costs an
employer approximately an extra 20 to 30 percent of a worker's take - home pay, in
employer taxes,
government -
mandated unemployment insurance, and
government -
mandated benefits, etc..
In addition to federal income taxes, the U.S.
government also
mandates that
employers subtract payroll taxes from their workers» paychecks each pay period, and then match the sums deducted.
As long as any
employer with 5 or more eligible employees offers a workplace savings plan to all employees within the deadline provided in the regulations, the
employer is fulfilling the
government mandate.
It was the
government that required
employers to attest that: «Both the job and the organization's core
mandate respect individual human rights in Canada, including the values underlying the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as well as other rights.
Many social services
employers must also contend with potential and actual changes in how they do business, whether through
government -
mandated mergers, shared services arrangements, or other large scale restructurings.
This means businesses and agencies using its services can receive credit toward achieving supplier - diversity requirements that are
mandated under some
government contracts, said George Ramos, Founder and CEO of
Employers Choice Online.
The
mandate is also a means of ensuring that
employers that offer employee coverage currently do not «dump» their employees into the Exchange, or if they do, that the additional cost imposed on the federal
government is repaid.