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The employer mandate under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which requires large employers to provide health insurance for their full-time employees or pay a penalty, is set to take effect on Jan. 1, 2015. (A special transition rule, described below, delays the effective date until 2016 for some of these large employers.) Regulations released by the Internal Revenue Service on Feb. 12, 2014, set forth the final rules that an employer must use to determine whether it is a large employer subject to the mandate. See, 79 Fed. Reg. 8543 (Feb. 12, 2014). With just over six months to go, the time is ripe for employers to determine whether they will be considered large employers and if so, to determine appropriate next steps.
A large employer is one that employed an average of at least 50 full-time employees and full-time equivalent employees (FTEs) on business days during the preceding calendar year. That is, whether an employer is a large employer in 2015 will depend on how many full-time employees and FTEs it employed on business days during 2014. An employer must take a number of steps in order to make this determination.
There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.
A federal district court in Miami, FL, has ruled that former National Basketball Association star Shaquille O'Neal will have to face a lawsuit over his promotion of unregistered securities in the form of cryptocurrency tokens and that he was a "seller" of these unregistered securities.
Why is it that those who are best skilled at advocating for others are ill-equipped at advocating for their own skills and what to do about it?
Blockchain domain names offer decentralized alternatives to traditional DNS-based domain names, promising enhanced security, privacy and censorship resistance. However, these benefits come with significant challenges, particularly for brand owners seeking to protect their trademarks in these new digital spaces.
In recent years, there has been a growing number of dry cleaners claiming to be "organic," "green," or "eco-friendly." While that may be true with respect to some, many dry cleaners continue to use a cleaning method involving the use of a solvent called perchloroethylene, commonly known as perc. And, there seems to be an increasing number of lawsuits stemming from environmental problems associated with historic dry cleaning operations utilizing this chemical.