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FREE EVENT: Affordable Care Act for Small Businesses!

Okay, listen up small busineses in the Greater Los Angeles area — the VEDC is hosting another free event regarding the Affordable Care Act and small businesses.  We all know that come January 1st, everyone needs to have ample health coverage.  But  this isn’t just for individuals who are uninsured, it affects small businesses too!  The Valley Economic Development Center — the VEDC — is offering this event to small businesses presented by City Councilman Curren D. Price, Jr. to learn more about what steps small businesses need to take to cover their employees and how to avoid penalties or fines with the law.  The event takes place this Thursday, November 21st — sorry for the short notice — at the California Science Center, not too far from USC (if you’re familiar with the area).

Check out the VEDC’s website for more information!  Also, stop by the SBA and learn more about the Affordable Care Act and Small Business.

Councilman
Curren D. Price, Jr.
presents

AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
TOWN HALL MEETING
FOR SMALL BUSINESS

Thursday, November 21, 2013
9:00 am – 12:00 pm

California Science Center
Donald P. Loker Conference Center
700 Exposition Park Drive (39th and Figueroa)
Los Angeles, CA  90037

THIS IS A FREE EVENT

Fro more information call (323) 846-2651 or email dorothy.randle@lacity.org.

               
VEDC  •  5121 Van Nuys Blvd., 3rd floor, Van Nuys, CA 91403  •  (818) 907-9977  •  www.vedc.org

(images and content are credited to the VEDC)

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Obamacare Delayed

The Fourth of July maybe over, but we still have one more thing to celebrate:  OBAMACARE‘s new deadline!!!

Now, whether you’re for the employer mandate to provide full-time employees health insurance or not, you have another year to fidget or jump on board.  But as you know, this only affects businesses that have 50 or more employees.  So, for all you much smaller small businesses, you can breath a sigh of relief.  For the rest of you, you got an extra time.  The mandate doesn’t go into effect until January 2015 as they find a way to simplify reporting requirements.

This is probably another beating-a-dead-horse-with a stick topic, but how do you feel about the mandate, whether it affects you come January 2015 or not?  It might one day.  Do you think employers should provide their full time staffers with health insurance?  Are you okay that part-timers were left of the mandate?

Are you happy to be waiting another year, if you’re one the businesses this mandates affects?  Do you already offer your employees health insurance?  Do you believe that providing health insurance to employees with make them happier and thus more productive employees?  Are some of you thinking about reducing wages and salary as a way to reduce the expense of offering health insurance coverage to your employees?  Do you think Obamacare is actually going to hold up or crumble underneath it’s own weight?

As an employer/ business owner of 50 or more employees who will still have to offer health insurance to its employees in 2015, what would be  the one (or few things) thing you would change about the mandate in your favor, if you could?

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