{"id":35280,"date":"2012-10-24T15:45:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T15:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/new_health_care_law_slashes_full_time_worker_definition_leads_to_more_part_\/"},"modified":"2012-10-24T15:45:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T15:45:49","slug":"new_health_care_law_slashes_full_time_worker_definition_leads_to_more_part_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35280","title":{"rendered":"New Health Care Law Slashes Full Time Worker definition, leads to More Part Time Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usually full time workers are understood to be those employed 35 hours a week or more&#8211;but this has now shifted. The key section of the law <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/26\/4980H\">may be found here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Section 1513](4) Full-time employee<br \/>\n(A) In general<br \/>\nThe term \u201cfull-time employee\u201d\u009d means, with respect to any month, an employee who is employed on average at least 30 hours of service per week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> As Mike Sherlock notes: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;any employer in his right mind would [look at the new definition of full time worker and] reduce the hours someone worked from say 34 to something like 25 or 28, just to make sure the average hours worked was under 30.<\/p>\n<p>If a lot of corporations did that, and a lot people had reduced hours, then corporations would have had to hire more workers to keep the same total number of hours.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed there was a massive surge in part-time employment (+582,000) in October&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> You can read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com\/2012\/10\/obama-slashes-four-hours-off-definition.html\">here<\/a> and there is <a href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/obamacare-mandate-anyone-who-works-30-hour-week-now-full-time\">more there<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually full time workers are understood to be those employed 35 hours a week or more&#8211;but this has now shifted. The key section of the law may be found here: [Section 1513](4) Full-time employee (A) In general The term \u201cfull-time<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35280\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}