Why the Employer Mandate Will Be Repealed or Amended, Again
According to a 2013 Gallup poll of small businesses: - 41 percent held off hiring new employees,
- 19 percent reduced their workforce and
- 18 percent reduced employees to part-time work.
Similarly, a survey from the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans found that: - 19 percent of small employers were reducing hiring in order to avoid the employer mandate, while
- 15 percent were adjusting their workers' hours so that fewer employees would be subject to the mandate.
