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Under the ACA, affected employers will need to identify any employees who are full-time under the ACA (including temps) and report them to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Moreover, employees identified as full-time can trigger an ACA tax on the employer if medical benefits are not offered at the right time.

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Top Stories: Lodging & Gaming
Collecting Guest Surveys To Improve Your Hotel
With how many reservations move through hotels every year, there is a wealth of data available to the hotelier who is willing to put the time into analyzing it.
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Las Vegas Looks to Build on Record Year
"Reinvention is the number-one factor in our success. But 84 percent of our visitors are repeat visitors. We have to continually refresh," says Jimenez.
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Your Bartender is Your Top Ambassador
Aside from a front desk employee or perhaps a concierge, the most interaction a guest might have with a hotel staff member is the property's head bartender or member of the bar staff. After all, many guests - for better or worse - spend more time bellying up to the bar than any other place in a hotel. 
Top Stories: Healthcare
Male RNs Continue To Earn More Than Female RNs: 5 Statistics
Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco looked at salaries of male and female nurses from 1998 through 2013 taken from representative surveys. The surveys showed male RN salaries were higher than female RN salaries during every year, and they found no narrowing of the salary gap over time.
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Hospital Leaders Propose 8 Care Design Principles To Improve Industry
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has led to some progress in improving individual patient care, boosting the health of populations and lowering per capita costs of healthcare, but healthcare leaders need to do more, according to a viewpoint piece published in JAMA.
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30 Words That Have Changed Healthcare Forever - Or At Least For This Year
Due to the continual modifications, it's nearly impossible to know what healthcare will look like one, 10 or 20 years down the road. However, it is possible to identify the words that will influence healthcare this year and - who knows - maybe forever.
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Top Stories: Human Resources
NLRB To Weigh In On High-Stakes McDonald's Labor Dispute
An NLRB administrative law judge on Monday will begin weighing whether McDonald's should be responsible for what employees say are poor working conditions and low pay at many of its franchise restaurants.
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Why HR Loves Persona-Based Recruiting
Firms are paying more attention to soft skills and personality types because they now recognize how important those factors are, and because the technology has evolved to offer a way to test for them at it.
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Behavioural Science Can Boost Motivation
A better understanding of the science behind the impact of pay and reward on employee behaviour could increase staff motivation, according to a study by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
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