I’m currently watching a webinar for employers on the impact of the new health care law. (It’s by Littler, which I highly recommend for employers who anticipate suits by their employees, frivolous or otherwise. Littler’s trial attorneys are basically pit bulls).
Anyway, much of this won’t apply to us, as we’re already making plans to ensure we don’t go above 49 employees so we’re not subject to this monstrosity of a law (we already watch that number because of some other laws we don’t want to deal with, too). If we end up expanding in the next decade, for example, we’ll just incorporate another business and outsource a division to it. You get the idea.
This sort of maneuvering’s not just limited to very-small businesses like us, though; a sister-in-law just informed us that her UPS call center job is being outsourced to India because of this law. Folks in her office got the option to relocate to Oakland (shudder) or take a buyout.
However, one point that I thought was interesting in the seminar, and kudos to whoever in Congress snuck it in the law, was this: no information is to be collected [by insurers], or premiums, enrollment, or rewards based on, lawful firearm possession or use by insureds. I didn’t know that.
Yes I’m an attorney. No, I am not your attorney, and nothing in this post constitutes legal advice or opinion.