The organization, he said, should "avoid mandating".
Economists expect some businesses to hire more part-time workers to avoid the mandate, but do not think it is likely that they would do so until late next year.
By acting on his own initiative and sacrificing some territory unilaterally, he hopes to avoid broader, mandated concessions, his allies say.
The result of this misguided policy, the paper continues, is that "[e]mployers are replacing full-time positions with part-time work to avoid the mandate of providing health care insurance".
Darden Restaurants, the parent company behind the Olive Garden and Red Lobster, recently tested out hiring even more part-time workers than usual -- about 75percentt of its workforce is made up of part-time workers -- in an effort to avoid the mandate that employers with 50 or more full-time employees provide health insurance benefits.
If the patient's neurological examination did not improve with time, a trial of extubation was performed at the discretion of the attending physician to avoid the mandate of tracheostomy placement.
Mr. Tauzin left open the possibility that the auto industry could propose steps to increase overall gas mileage to avoid new government mandates, which it has resisted successfully for many years.
They believe that cancelling their health plan to avoid obeying the mandate would put them at a competitive disadvantage with other employers.
The original version of the bill would have banned abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, but it was changed to 12 weeks to avoid having to mandate use of a vaginal probe to detect the heartbeat.
The Obama administration, hoping to avoid a legally mandated cutoff of United States aid to Egypt, thus further inflaming anti-Americanism there, has used tortuous rhetoric to avoid calling a coup a coup, or even condemning it.
