A Towers Watson survey finds most large employers are not looking to circumvent PPACA coverage mandates by reducing full-time workers' hours.
By Dan Cook |
Updated on June 14, 2013
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Restaurant workers are seeing their hours cut by some employers. Photo credit: Associated Press/File.
With major portions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act just months away from taking effect, most large employers are not looking to circumvent coverage extension by reducing full-time workers’ hours.
That’s the conclusion of a just-released study by Towers Watson & Co. The firm surveyed 113 companies with more than 1,000 employees — 98 percent of whom said they are not planning to try to alter the status of full-time employers to go below the extended coverage trigger point of 30 hours a week.
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Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.
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