Extended set of control variables includes also percentage of members ages 20 35, percentage of members ages 35 60, number of income recipients, dummies for head self-employed, head employer, household has a last one car, head is married, head is single, head unmarried with spouse, educational levels of heads, and head's job sectors.
The clause -- which policy nerds will find in Section 1511 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, right under the heading "Employer Responsibilities" -- calls for automatic enrollment by large employers.
"At 750 bucks a head, the employer community might just say, 'Go ahead and fine me, I'm getting out,' " said R. Bruce Josten, executive vice president of the United States Chamber of Commerce.
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Digby Jones, minister for trade in Gordon Brown's first year as prime minister, and a past head of employers' body the CBI, said he had considerable "reservations" about whether these kinds of deals were appropriate.
Mandelson's intervention came days after Richard Lambert, head of employers' organisation the CBI, said that bosses risked being viewed as "aliens" if their pay awards continued to far outstrip those of employees.
This information was recorded by clerical staff on the admission face sheet at the time of admission, under the heading of "employer" and supplemented with social worker and clinical service providers' notes.
They seem to be less interested in banging the heads of employers to pay in more.
At the same time, two members of parliament who are also heads of employers' federations (and thus personify Germany's close ties between lobbies and government) have had to choose between their business jobs and their parliamentary seats.
At Anglia Ruskin University, Tony Howard, head of the employer- liaison department Higher Skills At Work, who persuaded the RAF of the merits of this approach, says that it can be.
David Robertson, who has worked at Boeing for 35 of his 54 years, following his father into the business, said he suspected that when the jobs head elsewhere his employer will miss the commitment and expertise built through company clans like his.
