Assignment Details Assignment Description The Affordable Care Act (ACA) created new employment requirements at health care organizations. Being compliant with the ACA means that human resources...

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UPDATED HR STRATEGIES AND PRACTICES IN THE CONTEXT OF AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
    ACA or the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was passed in the interest of offering Health benefits to all, especially the working population (Manchikanti & Hirsch, 2012). In the light of the changes brought about by this legislation, it is necessary to make some amendments, renew our HR practices, and meet new challenges (Strack, 2008).Since we have always maintained a good health insurance policy for all our employees, only a few changes are mandated. However, the context of full-time employees has been revised. Since our facility works with several part-time workers and related agencies, it is necessary to clear the context (Thorsteinson, 2003). The main areas of changes include the hiring process and some additional employee benefits. Other changes encompass information and certification areas among others. The following outlines the areas of changes the HR will incorporate in order to adjust to the ACA.
Health Care Hiring Practices
    Since ACA has led to an increase in patients being covered with health insurance, the number of patients and people seeking medical assistance is bound to increase. Therefore, in order to ensure better care, the number of medical practitioners and supporting staff has to increase.Considering the need of more staffs, which would require a higher percentage of supporting staffs, the hiring process, which had been focused mainly on the practical and academic knowledge of care services, must be made more flexible, so that more candidates can get through the eligibility filter at the time of being recruited.
    On the other hand, the need for medical practitioners and nurses, who are directly involved in the care providing process, the HRM has decided to upgrade its hiring practices in order to hire only the most competitive talent in the market. More patients also mean it is important to offer better service and to meet these demands,which highly talented staffs can only be able to manage despite being limited in numbers. The requirements for hiring staff will also be upgraded including background checks, mandatory references, and competence display even after the interview has been passed. HR is also considering the introduction of probation to assess employee competence before hiring full-time employees.As supported by Sachane, Bezuidenhout and Botha (2018), assessment of employees before full time contract offering in an organisation, the person must be tested in terms of practical and theoretical skill application at the workplace.
    The context of a full-time employee has been upgraded to mean ‘an employee who works 30 or 30+ hours a week’ according to the ACA. All full-time employees are eligible for health insurance.The upgraded requirements added more duty hours to the job profile, which proves to be beneficial, when considering the fact that ACA requires less internal cost and making full time employees, work...