This story from todays Wall Street Journal highlights a point that I made about Obamacare over the weekend. Obamacare created more problems than it solved, and broke parts of the system that were working. Odd-Hour Workers Face Loss of Employer Health Plans Redrawn Lines Between Full- and Part-Timers at Sodexo Decide Who Is Eligible for Coverage By Lauren Weber April 13, 2014 7:17 p.m. ET Thousands of these so-called variable-hour employees—many of whom work on college campuses that dont operate during summer months—could lose their benefits as employers use new formulas to classify workers as full time or part time. The distinction determines which employees are entitled to company-sponsored health coverage. A large portion of Sodexos 125,000 U.S. workers are variable, and about 10,000 of them are losing access to health insurance, paid vacation and sick days and other benefits available to full-timers. Other employers are likely to follow Sodexos lead in reclassifying workers as they get closer to the ACAs Jan. 1, 2015 compliance deadline, said Gary Claxton, a vice president at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. online.wsj/news/articles/SB10001424052702303873604579495942025149938#printMode
Posted on: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 13:52:09 +0000
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