patrickt
10-22-2012, 03:20 AM
By federal dictate, in Obamacare, anyone working 30 hours a week is considered to be a full-time employee. That should help to raise the number of Americans with full-time employment. It helps the President feel like a full-time employee, too.
"Just recently, the Internal Revenue Service issued an 18-page, single-spaced notice (http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-12-58.pdf) explaining how to distinguish between full-time and part-time workers under the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”). The difference matters, because the act requires employers with 50 or more full-time workers to provide health insurance for those workers. At the same time, no company has to buy insurance for part-time employees, defined as those working less than 30 hours a week."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/robert-samuelson-obamacares-rhetoric-vs-its-reality/2012/10/21/c6b95560-1a17-11e2-aa6f-3b636fecb829_story.html
I suppose one should expect glitches in a 2,500+ page law that has thousands of pages of definitions and explanations when Congress passes a lway that no one read and the the Speaker of the House said we could learn about after they passed it. Okay, slowly but surely we're learning.
"Just recently, the Internal Revenue Service issued an 18-page, single-spaced notice (http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-12-58.pdf) explaining how to distinguish between full-time and part-time workers under the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”). The difference matters, because the act requires employers with 50 or more full-time workers to provide health insurance for those workers. At the same time, no company has to buy insurance for part-time employees, defined as those working less than 30 hours a week."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/robert-samuelson-obamacares-rhetoric-vs-its-reality/2012/10/21/c6b95560-1a17-11e2-aa6f-3b636fecb829_story.html
I suppose one should expect glitches in a 2,500+ page law that has thousands of pages of definitions and explanations when Congress passes a lway that no one read and the the Speaker of the House said we could learn about after they passed it. Okay, slowly but surely we're learning.