Employers with large part-time and low-wage populations — especially retailers — are more likely to take measures to avoid triggering a costly requirement to provide health care coverage to employees that used to be ineligible.
According to a Mercer survey released Wednesday, 67 percent of retail/wholesale employers expect they'll be making changes to their work force structure so they can dodge a coverage eligibility requirement that's part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Under that requirement, in 2014, employees working 30 or more hours per week will be considered full-time and therefore must be offered employer-based health care coverage.
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