The legislation will impose an excise tax in 2018 designed to drive employers and their workers away from the highest-cost insurance policies, which typically provide generous benefits at little out-of-pocket cost to the workers.
The shortfall is especially high among adults who lack insurance or regular access to a doctor, partly because the recession drove employers to lay off workers or cut health benefits.
The retailers say it will drive employers to limit worker hours, reduce base pay and hire more part-timers.
As this trend continues, it will drive employers to create even more jobs, since consumer demand drives so much of the American economy.
Recent international trends in skilled migration policy have converged toward so-called hybrid systems in which both supply-driven independent migration and demand-driven employer sponsored migration play significant roles.
A true fix to this problem must be driven by employers themselves.
Effect heterogeneities reveal that the negative impact is mostly driven by employer-financed training.
Or if you're Robin Pyke – a former housekeeper – whether you can drive your employer's Porsche without permission (according to its owner, at least), have your boyfriend over and moonlight as a dogsitter on company property, in company time.
It's also de rigueur for nannies to drive their employer's expensive vehicles; one says she routinely tooled the kids around in the parents' Porsche SUV.
In his prepared remarks for the Philadelphia speech, Mr. Sweeney cites academic studies that found that in 92percentt of organizing drives employers invoked their legal right to make employees attend anti-union meetings, and that in 78percentt of such campaigns supervisors submitted workers to one-on-one pressure sessions.
This study estimates the effects of Australia's recent shift toward a 'hybrid approach' for managing economic migration, which increased the requirements for (supply-driven) independent skilled migrants at the same time that (demand-driven) employer-sponsored migration was expanded.
