Townhall.com,
Hank Adler, February 15, 2014
The President has reached
"You have to be kidding!" stage of executive orders. The latest
executive order with respect to Obamacare, as summarized in the Treasury
Department 'Fact Sheet', provides:
The employer responsibility
provision will generally apply to larger firms with 100 or more full-time
employees starting in 2015 and employers with 50 or more full-time employees
starting in 2016.
While the employer
responsibility provisions will generally apply starting in 2015, they will not
apply until 2016 to employers with at least 50 but fewer than 100 full-time
employees if the employer provides an appropriate certification described in
the rules.*
* Those that claim the exemption
for 2015 will need to certify under penalty of perjury that they did not reduce
their workforce to fewer than 100 employees in order to qualify.
Nothing about this executive order
passes constitutional muster:
Executive orders cannot create
or change law. Executive orders are for the purpose of administrating law.
