originally posted in:Secular Sevens
Not a huge fan of mandating full time employees as an average of 30 hours. I don't see a particularly compelling reason reason for that, and it resulted in both of my jobs cutting hours significantly. The only one I work for now is my university, and due to the typical age of its employees (students), they're generally covered by their parents and there's no need to offer healthcare for hundreds of kids earning a couple hundred bucks a week.
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I'm not a big fan of it either - I'm not sure that it's an overall negative policy, and I'm not sure that it actually lowers demand for labour to any notable degree more than it just, at most, distributes that demand in inconvenient ways in the cases where it applies and, lastly, I don't know, quantitatively, what kind of affect it's had on employer-based health insurance - but it seems to be a fairly minor part of the reform, both in its potential negative and positive effects.