The first half of 2016 saw a flurry of legislative activity, which resulted in
enhanced conditions for staffing businesses.
ASA and its allies focused their attention on
the Affordable Care Act and the final union
“persuader” rule at the federal level. At the
state level, ASA worked with its affiliated
chapters and regional councils to defeat or
amend predictive scheduling, sales and use
tax on staffing services, criminal background
check laws, and other antistaffing legislation.
FEDERAL
E-Flex Coalition Focuses on
Simplifying ACA Employer Reporting
After an intensive five-year effort, the
Employers for Flexibility in Health Care
(E-Flex) Coalition largely completed its
major activities at the end of 2015 and in
2016 turned its attention to the one major
goal remaining: simplifying the employer
reporting requirements under the Afford-
able Care Act. ASA is a founding member of
the coalition and a member of its executive
committee.
E-Flex members including ASA have
formed a new ACA reporting taskforce to
lobby for passage of bills pending in the U.S.
Congress that would allow employers to
Inside
Industry Leads Efforts to Defeat Predictive
Scheduling Legislation in States
Page 4
Courts Rule on Enforceability of Temporary
Employee Restrictive Covenants
Page 12
ASA Files Amicus Brief in Recruiting
Scripts Case
Page 16
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ASA Engages in Robust
Legislative Activity During
First Half of 2016
Efforts at the federal and state levels have
improved staffing business conditions
