On Jan. 28, the House Ways and Means Committee held a congressional hearing on the impact of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer mandate definition of full-time employees. AGC joined the Employers for Flexibility in Health Care coalition in a letter to the committee highlighting that certain industries, including construction, have workforces of a variable nature and this makes complying with the new requirements of the ACA especially difficult. The reliance on part-time, temporary and seasonal workers with fluctuating and unpredictable work hours, as well as unpredictable lengths of s...