Reps. Walorski, Lipinski Introduce Save American Workers Act
"Obamacare's burdensome employer mandate and its redefinition of full-time workers are hurting middle class American families and crushing our job creators,"
"Most Americans will tell you that a full-time workweek is 40 hours, but the ACA defines full-time as 30 hours,"
"Under the Affordable Care Act's 30-hour definition, we've seen a substantial increase in the amount of reporting requirements we now need to meet," said
BACKGROUND
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, requires employers with more than 50 full-time equivalent workers to offer health insurance to full-time employees or face a penalty.
The law defines full-time status as 30 hours of work per week, significantly below the traditional definition of 40 hours. This has forced businesses to reduce hours and slow hiring in order to avoid unaffordable new costs or the ACA's substantial fines. The 30-hour definition has affected workers in the private sector as well as city, state, and school employees, with a particularly severe impact on hourly, part-time, and seasonal workers.
The bipartisan Save American Workers Act, which passed the House in 2014 and 2015, would provide relief to middle class families and certainty for job creators by changing the definition of a full-time employee under the ACA to 40 hours per week, putting it back in line with the widely-used traditional definition.
Walorski represents the
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