However, the nation’s high court took that ruling a step further, in a lesser-publicized injunction it issued in the wake of the Hobby Lobby decision. So reports SHRM.
That order enjoined the Department of Health and Human Services from forcing a religious-based non-profit organization (Wheaton College) to file a form mandated by the ACA. This particular form, EBSA Form 700, was designed to give religious-based non-profits (and, by extension, for-profits) an “out” by mandating that their insurance carriers (as opposed to the organizations themselves) provide the contraception – thereby ensuring women could access birth control and the company would be “off the hook.”
It doesn’t bode well for HR professionals trying to stay abreast of the ACA learning curve.