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After the Election: What Does It Mean To Our Industry?Karen Wanamaker, V.P. Industry & Government AffairsNational Wooden Pallet and Container Association
Voters Said “Play it Again”
Congress is now less popular than:o Root canalso NFL replacement refereeso Head liceo Colonoscopieso Traffic jamso Cockroacheso Used-car salesmeno Brussels sprouts
90 percent of House Members (85% in 2010)91 percent of Senators – (84% in 2010)Voters hate Congress but like their own
Representatives
Regulatory Costs
$518 billion in new costs87-million man hours for regulatory paperwork$236.7 billion for new rules initiated in 2012
Health and Human Services (HHS) & Internal Revenue Service IRSPatient Protection & Affordable Care Act
Employer mandate – “large businesses” must offer affordable insurance and meets minimum value to full-time employees and dependents or pay penaltieso $2,000 non-offering penalties (30 “free” full-time
employees)o $3,000 unaffordability/minimum value penalty
Essential Health Benefits (EHB)Prohibits new group health plans establishing eligibility rules in favor of higher wage employees
Opting Out of Exchange• Alabama• Alaska• Arizona• Georgia• Kansas• Louisiana• Maine• Missouri• Nebraska
• New Hampshire• North Dakota• Oklahoma• South Carolina• South Dakota• Texas• Wisconsin• Wyoming
2013 Taxes
Increased Medicare Surtax (0.9%), New Investment Tax (3.8%)
$2,500 Cap on Flexible Savings Account Contributions
Increase threshold for medical expense deductibility
Taxes on medical devicesLast year for tax credit
2014 Taxes
Auto-enrollment (>200 employees) – delayed Antidiscrimination requirements – delayed Employer mandate penalties Individual mandate tax Annual Small Business Health Insurance Tax
(HIT) - $400-$500 annual premium increase Temporary Reinsurance Fee - $60-$84 three-year
premium increase
What Happened to Affordable?In California, 20 percent for small businesses and
individuals without employer-sponsored insurance.
Florida and Ohio also 20 percent.
Are You a Large Employer?
Full Time: PPACA anyone employed an average of 30 hours per week or more.
Seasonal Workers: 50 full-time employees for 120 days or more during the year.
Part-Time Employees: Part-time employees’ hours will be converted into FTEs for the purpose of determining whether the employer is a large employer and subject to the employer mandate. o Formula: Add up all of the hours worked by employees
who are not full-time employees and divide by 120. o Example: if 6 employees each work 5 hours per week,
they will count as if the firm has one additional full-time employee, calculated monthly (6 employees x 5 hours per week each = 30 hours per week x 4 weeks = 120 hours/120 = 1).
ObamaCare Seminar at ALCNWPCA Annual Leadership ConferenceFebruary 16-19, 2013Loews Portofino Bay Hotel
Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)USDA APHISAmerican Lumber Standards Committee (ALSC)Inspection ServicesALSC Board (Appointed by Labor Department)Congress
Occupational Safety and Health AdministrationTwo national emphasis programso Combustible dust o Amputations
ErgonomicsFireNoiseSafety Program Update
Food and Drug AdministrationFood Modernization Act
o Equipment – sanitizedo Pallets – packaging or packing material
Wooden bins could be used if they are adequately clean and sanitary for their intended use.• Cleanable or designed for single use• Unlikely to support growth or transfer of bacteria• If you reuse food-packing material, you must take
measures to ensure that food-contact surfaces are clean such as by cleaning and sanitizing or using a clean liner.
Pharmaceutical Best Handling Practiceso Heat-treated woodo Household cleano 19% moisture content
Environmental Protection AgencyReusable Transport Packagingo SMM Web Academy - Greener Packaging –
Integrating Reusable Transport Packaging into Your Supply Chain
o “Forward-thinking companies today are reaping the financial and operational benefits of replacing limited-life transport packaging materials—such as wood pallets and cardboard boxes—with durable, reusable alternatives.”
Gasses Produced by Painted Pellets
Federal Trade CommissionWhat is a Recycler?
Environmental Benefit ClaimsThird-party CertificationDegradableFree of ClaimsRecyclableRecycled ContentRenewable materials
$16,438,765,400,215.00
Breaching the Debt LimitSuspending the sales of state and local
government treasury bonds; Borrowing from federal employee pension funds; Postponing the purchase and sale of foreign
currencies.