Employer shared responsibility under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been delayed until 2015, but employers should not delay in fine tuning health care and employment strategies. There are key steps your company can take in 2014 to be best positioned for 2015 and what’s ahead. Learn how to consider various aspects of your corporate culture — including turnover rate, reliance on part-time employees, vulnerability to union organizing, use of staffing agencies, seasonal fluctuation and systems for tracking hours worked — in choosing the best health care reform plan for your company.
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Penny C. Wofford
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Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
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Penny Wofford is a South Carolina Supreme Court Certified Specialist in Employment and Labor Law. She concentrates her practice in the area of employment litigation and employee benefits. She advises and defends employers, employer sponsored plans, and plan fiduciaries against all types of claims under ERISA and employment discrimination laws. Penny not only provides proactive counseling and legal advice to employers and management regarding human resources issues but also assists employers with the design, drafting, and administration of welfare benefit plans. Penny is a frequent speaker on employee benefits and employee leave topics and regularly provides company and supervisor training on employment discrimination, documentation and confidentiality.