precarious life & times: ACA, #adjuncts…enter the IRS

Sunday, March 3, 2013

ACA, #adjuncts…enter the IRS

…assembling documents for a teleconference on our statement for the IRS hearing on calculating work hours and part time status, I created a Storify to include the document collection on Scribd, additional links and images. To call this is a can of worms would be an understatement…

View the story "More ACA: enter IRS" on Storify More ACA: enter IRS a work in progress, picking up where I left off with "and now the cutting begins," leading with that link (e.g. embed a Storify in a Storify). Thumbnail: Part I unintended consequences; Part II, IRS Storified by · Sun, Mar 03 2013 14:17:26 Adjunctproject So it begins: cutting course loads…to keep #adjuncts below eligibility level for Affordable Health Care Act coverage. Not just faculty either: all part time employee group... Federal Register | Shared Responsibility for Employers Regarding Health CoverageThis document contains proposed regulations providing guidance under section 4980H of the Internal Revenue Code (Code) with respect to th... Technical Release No. 2012-01Frequently Asked Questions from Employers Regarding Automatic Enrollment, Employer Shared Responsibility, and Waiting Periods February 9,... the New Faculty Majority blog: ACA, Adjunct Faculty & USW, Pittsburghthe and the ... Adjunct Faculty Association of the United Steelworkers Battle of Homestead Foundation invite you to... A Community Conver... AFA_IRS_Proposal_Draft_Feb13NOSIGS.pdf - Google Drive IRS Says Colleges Must Be 'Reasonable' When Calculating Adjuncts' Hours - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher EducationThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the new law designed to expand health insurance to more Americans, has put adjuncts and t... Amazonaws IRS guidelines in document below, also on Scribd in NFM ACA collection AFT - A Union of Professionals - Don't let colleges use the ACA to abuse contingent facultyAs the Affordable Care Act reaches implementation, questions remain regarding how contingent faculty will be treated when the act fully t... NFM ACA | ScribdSchool Work Health & Medicine Brochures/Catalogs Magazines/Newspapers How-To Guides/Manuals Recipes/Menus Books - Fiction Books - Non-fic... The above link to NFM's Scribd collection for ACA / IRS related documents and announcements has been set for moderated public uploading of documents, articles, statements, flyers, etc relevant to this issue and the upcoming IRS hearing on workload/hours guidelines. Shared Responsibility for Employers Regarding Health CoverageEditor's note: Following is an explanation of the Shared Responsibility for Employers Regarding Health Coverage provision and hearing. Th... More on submitting... | FacebookNew Faculty Majority Coalition wrote: More on submitting #ACA/hours comments... Join Facebook to connect with New Faculty Majority Coalit...

Ken Ryesky's email regarding submitting comments to IRS, :

Very heartening to know that the NFM intends to submit comments. The comments thus far submitted to the docket do have a respectable showing from Adjunct faculty, but we are not the only unhappy campers in the constituency. More Adjunct-oriented comments need to be weighed in.

I am in the process of mentally conceptualizing my planned oral comments for the hearing on 23 April.

Points that need to be made during the course of this rulemaking proceeding include, but are not necessarily limited to:

(A) How academia treats its Adjuncts, and what drives academia in doing so. Some exemplars certainly cannot hurt (e.g., the Weber State affair, the Queensborough CUNY English Adjuncts affair, the failure of various CUNY schools to properly get their Adjuncts onto the payroll during the Fall 2012 semester come immediately to my own mind).

(B) The teaching process begins before the first day of the semester, and does not end when the Final Exam papers are collected.

(C) Adjuncts, like FTs, need to keep abreast of ongoing developments in their fields [as a tax attorney, I believe this to be a point that can be easily appreciated by the IRS people if packaged correctly.].

(D) [What I envision as for my planned oral comments]: In addition to painting a picture of academia's treatment and mistreatment of Adjunct faculty (the "WHAT"), a case also needs to be made as to the relevance of such to the rulemaking proceeding at hand (the "WHY"). We need to tell the IRS people WHY the Adjunct situation matters. This is the perspective I will seek to address.

Let me know if I can be of any help to you in propounding your comments.

-- Ken Ryesky

Va. workers' part-time hours capped due to health law | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.comRICHMOND Thousands of part-time state workers, including many in Hampton Roads, are being told they'll be allowed to work no more than 29... Prepping 4 classes, finding useful links 4 students, looked up & noticed time. Do these hrs have 2 go into calculations LOL #ACA #AdjunctSociologist4Equality the New Faculty Majority blog: Obamacare, hours, strange math & unintended consequencesI would never have dreamed that the Affordable Healthcare Act (Obama care) would cause a hardship on adjuncts and other contingent facult... @AFT holding Jan 22-23 Webinar to discuss #ACA related #adjunct workload reduction http://shar.es/4D2Fe Register now! @newfacmajorityMaria Maisto AFT - A Union of Professionals - Downsizing adjuncts' workloadRegister here. Colleges jump the gun on Affordable Care Act and definition of 'full-time' work The Affordable Care Act will open the door... New IRS Rules Designed to Help Adjunct Faculty Hurt ThemThe IRS issued rules requiring colleges to provide full benefits to adjunct teachers who work at least 30 hours a week. Naturally, the sc... IRS Warns Colleges Not To Screw Over Adjunct FacultyThe Internal Revenue Service put colleges and universities on warning with new proposed rules issued this month, warning them not to skim... Legislators Could Use Obamacare to Cure Higher Ed Administrative BloatOne college president told the local newspaper that his college was lowering the number of hours per week adjunct faculty could teach fro... Are Adjuncts Full Time Employees?Obamacare was destined to be plagued with a lot of unintended consequences and hard cases. There's no way a law so sweeping, involving su... Ohio colleges make plans to implement ObamacareYoungstown State University is among the first schools in the country to announce it will cap the number of hours worked by part-time fac... Obamacare | ThinkProgress2 days ago ... Furthermore, a just-released GAO report found that if Obamacare and its cost- containment mechanisms are fully implemente... Higher education officials look to Washington for guidance on adjuncts and the Affordable Care Act | Inside Higher Ed Obamacare - Huffington PostBig News on Obamacare. Includes blogs, news, and community conversations about Obamacare.

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ACA, #adjuncts…enter the IRS

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