US Treasury department delays PPACA employer mandate

[JURIST] The US Depart­ment of Trea­sury (DOT) [offi­cial web­site] announced [DOT blog] on Tues­day that it will delay enforc­ing the Patient Pro­tec­tion and Afford­able Care Act (PPACA) [text; JURIST back­grounder] employer man­date for busi­nesses with 50 or more full-time employ­ees until 2015. The PPACA man­date requir­ing com­pa­nies with more than 50 full-time employ­ees to pro­vide health cov­er­age to its employ­ees and to adhere to spe­cific infor­ma­tion report­ing prac­tices was expected to take effect in 2014. The exten­sive report­ing require­ments [Bloomberg…

US Treasury department delays PPACA employer mandate