Amid sporadic news of employers cutting workers' hours apparently to avoid Affordable Care Act requirements, two U.S. senators want to amend the law to redefine full-time as 40 hours per week.All but small employers have to offer affordable insurance to employees working more than 30 hours per week or otherwise face a $2,000 fine — creating what Senator Susan Collins called “a perverse incentive for businesses to cut their employees' hours so they are no longer considered 'full time.'”
Collins, a Maine Republican, is joining Indiana Democrat Joe Donnelly in sponsoring the Forty Hours is Full Time Act, which would redefine the ACA’s weekly full-time classification to 40 hours per week and raise the number of hours counted toward full-time equivalency to 174 hours per month. Excerpt, read more here.
So instead of fixing the problem they just change the hours so employees can work longer and still not qualify for benefits.
I guess that’s someone’s idea of a fix.