In October, the Work Comp Staffing Solutions team met hundreds of staffing professionals at the American Staffing Association’s annual conference. Many attendees were interested in the Affordable Care Act’s impact on the staffing industry. In almost all of our conversations with staffing owners, there was an intense interest in the whether the ACA will increase or reduce workers’ compensations costs.
Here are some of the questions that we fielded:
- Will workers compensation benefits be delivered slower to employees because of the limited supply of doctors and emergency rooms that will now be servicing new ACA patients too?
- Will the limited health resources in the US, translate into to higher comp costs to employers as employees are out of work longer?
- Since under the ACA, employers receive a discount for wellness programs, will that translate into lower workers’ compensation costs?
And believe me, there were plenty more very interesting questions that were raised by the attendees.
Here is a picture of me speaking to a staffing owner about these issues and his recent increase in his rates.
Please feel free to contact me with your questions about workers compensation in 2015 and I would be glad to address them, and provide a FREE workers compensation quote to you.
All the best
David Schek
President
david@StaffingCompSolutions.com
www.StaffingCompSolutions.com
American Staffing Association Member
ASA Exhibitor 2014 Conference Booth 1123
California Staffing Association Member