Mandatory compliance with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has become a certainty for all U.S. employers. All organizations – particularly those with part-time workers – now face the challenge of ensuring compliance and absorbing the anticipated costs of PPACA without jeopardizing bottom-line results.

News Facts

• A recent study conducted by Mercer on the impact of PPACA found that 60 percent of respondents expect an increase in costs and one-third of those expect an increase of five percent or more¹.
• Kronos Incorporated can help organizations manage their bottom line while complying with the new PPACA requirements by:
  • Providing accurate information about average hours worked by full-time and part-time employees to comply with PPACA regulations.
  • Delivering timely analysis of employee benefit eligibility, thus improving compliance and reducing financial penalties.
  • Monitoring an organization’s workforce by analyzing schedules, time records, and benefits enrollment in real time.
  • Notifying the appropriate agencies of PPACA compliance through auditing and reporting built into the workforce management suite.

Supporting Quotes

• Paul DeCamp, partner, Jackson Lewis LLP
  “Many organizations had been taking a wait-and-see approach to PPACA compliance. Now that the election is over, it would be prudent for employers to get a strategy in place and develop tools and processes to comply before the 2014 deadline.”

• Jim Kizielewicz, senior vice president, Kronos
  “By leveraging Kronos workforce management solutions, organizations can more effectively manage their largest controllable expense and biggest asset: labor. Organizations that have automated their workforce management processes will be better prepared to combat the near-term impacts of the PPACA.”

Supporting Resources

• Check out a PPACA-related Time Well Spent cartoon.
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About Kronos Incorporated

Kronos is the global leader in delivering workforce management solutions in the cloud. Tens of thousands of organizations in more than 100 countries — including more than half of the Fortune 1000^® — use Kronos to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity. Learn more about Kronos industry-specific time and attendance, scheduling, absence management, HR and payroll, hiring, and labor analytics applications at www.kronos.com. Kronos: Workforce Innovation That Works™.

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¹ Healthcare Reform After the Decision: Mercer’s Series of Surveys on Health Care Reform, August 2012