Redirect Health Co-founder and CEO, Paul Johnson, chimes in on the unique challenges franchise owners face in providing healthcare for their employees. While businesses are subject to all kinds of government rules and regulations, the latest mandate - Obamacare - is perhaps the biggest (and most expensive) challenge of all. It's an especially difficult task for franchise businesses.
In most cases, their workforces primarily are comprised of seasonal, fluctuating and support-level employees. Moreover, to buy a new franchise unit often means inheriting dozens of additional staff - overnight - a major consideration for franchisees who must now provide healthcare.
Paul shares with readers of Franchising USA the oft-misunderstood requirements of Obamacare and a new way to meet the law's mandates, provide quality healthcare, save money and gain a competitive edge. It's called partial self-insurance, and Paul Johnson explains here...
