Employer Mandate Impact: 50 State Profile

Employer Mandate: 50 State Profile
Alabama:
State
Premium Increase
Loss in Weekly Pay ($)

Income Losses since ACA
became Law in Businesses
with 50-99 Workers
Alabama
12.00%
9.97
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Businesses with 50-99
Workers
498.41
Action
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
3,136
State
Employer
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Alabama
City of Gadsden
Public
Cut hours for part-time

and seasonal workers
from 32.5 per week to a
maximum of 29
Alabama
Walker County
Public

and seasonal workers
from a maximum of 32
to 29 per week
Alabama
Houston County
Public
Cut hours of part-time

employees to fewer than
30 per week
Sep-13
Alabama
University of Alabama
Public
Capped student work

hours at 20 per week
Jul-13
Alabama
University of North Alabama
Public
Capped work hours at

29 per week for student
employees
Jul-13
Alabama
Auburn University
Public
Jul-13
Alabama
Balloons Are Everywhere
Private
Limiting students to 20
hours of work per week
while school is in
session
Cut part-time schedules
to a maximum of 29
hours per week and
limited all new hires to
part-time
Jun-14
40
Jun-14
Mar-13
Bosses Face Affordable Care Act Deadline; Employers Must Make Changes to Employees' Health
Insurance Before Year-End.
October 1, 2014
The clock is ticking for Tommy Cain and thousands of other U.S. employers facing deadlines to make
changes to the health insurance they offer their employees under the Affordable Care Act. Mr. Cain has
already met one of the law's key requirements: offer health insurance to at least 70% of full-time staffers
by 2015, or face penalties. Back in January, he put a no-frills plan in place for his 250 employees. His
Gulf Coast grocery chain offers to pay 60% of premiums costs, deducting $25 weekly from the paychecks
of those who opt for the coverage.
Alaska:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Alaska
21.90%
23.61
State
Employer
Alaska
Mat-Su Borough
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
1,180.29
Action
Public

EMTs and firefighters to
a maximum of 29.9 per
week
Job Losses in Businesses

with 20-49 Workers
since ACA became Law
855
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Jan-14
Arizona:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Arizona
22.60%
19.93
State
Employer
Arizona
City of Yuma
Public
Arizona
Michael Monti's La Casa Vieja

steakhouse
Private
Arizona
Arizona State University
Public
Arizona
Maricopa Community Colleges
Public
Arizona
University of Arizona in Tucson
Public
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
996.45
Action

with 20-49 Workers
6,650
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Cut hours for parttimers to a maximum

of 28 per week
Shifting more workers
to fewer than 30 hours
per week
Nov-13
Limited course loads

for non-tenured
associate faculty
members
Reduced hours of 700
adjunct faculty and
600 part-time workers
below 30 per week
Aug-13
Limited hours
temporary employees
may work in a year
Sep-13
1300
May-13
500
May-13
Small businesses struggle on health insurance.

November 6, 2014
Nancy Smith, who runs the Great Arizona Puppet Theater in Phoenix, made a similar decision. Her
business employs only a handful of people who need insurance, and she was able to offer only plans with
high deductibles. She and her employees decided buying individual policies made the most sense.
Arkansas:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Arkansas
22.00%
16.83
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
841.59
Action
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
3,578
State
Employer
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Arkansas
Arkansas Tech University
Public
Lowered cap on student

work hours from 40 per
week to 28
Mar-14
Arkansas
Pulaski Technical College
Public
Capped course loads for

adjunct faculty
Jul-13
Arkansas
Area Agency on Aging of Western

Arkansas, Inc.
Private
Jun-13
Arkansas
Arkansas State University
Public
Cut hours for staff of

500 home health aides
and drivers to 28 per
week
Limited adjunct course
loads and reduced hours
for part-time employees,
including students, to a
maximum of 28 per
week
Jun-13
ObamaCare Forced An Arkansas Furniture Store To Halt Expansion Throughout The State.
We have been a very blessed company, said Joe Donaldson, co-owner and General Manager of Sams
Furniture in Springdale. Weve actually had double-digit increases the last three years in a row.
Donaldsons parents started the furniture company back in 1992 with a handful of other employees.
Sams Furniture now has two locations in northwest Arkansas and employs close to 50 people. Less than
two years ago, Donaldson was even ready to expand into central Arkansas with a third location, but his
plans changed. (J.R. Davis, Small Businesses Face HIT From New Federal Health Care Law,
The City Wire [Fort Smith, AR], 2/18/14)
Owner Of Sams Furniture: We Wouldve Probably Already Had Been Open In Little
Rock With A Third Store If This Whole Health Care Thing Wouldnt Have Taken Place.
But It Scared The Heck Out Of Us. We wouldve probably already been open in Little Rock
with a third store if this whole health care thing wouldnt have taken place, said Donaldson. But
it scared the heck out of us. (J.R. Davis, Small Businesses Face HIT From New Federal
Health Care Law, The City Wire [Fort Smith, AR], 2/18/14)
So, For Now, An Expansion Into Little Rock Which Would Add Between 30-40 New
Arkansas Jobs Will Have To Wait. (J.R. Davis, Small Businesses Face HIT From New
Federal Health Care Law, The City Wire [Fort Smith, AR], 2/18/14)
As Sams Furniture Has Increased Sales, Theyve Had To Eliminate Jobs To Stay
BelowObamaCares Employer Mandate Or Pay Thousands In Extra Costs. We were at
about 56employees when this whole health care thing started, explains Donaldson, who
estimates the HIT will cost his company tens of thousands of dollars in 2014. Not only have we
grown our volume, but weve had to do it with six or seven less people because we had to get
under that 50. (J.R. Davis,Small Businesses Face HIT From New Federal Health
Care Law, The City Wire [Fort Smith, AR], 2/18/14)
California:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
California
20.50%
22.64
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
1,132.14
Action
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
42,788
State
Employer
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
California
La Sierra University
Private
Capped student work

Feb-14
California
Biola University
Private
Sep-13
California
Mexican American Opportunity

Foundation
Private
Cut student work hours

to a maximum of 25 per
week; suspended limit
due to employer
mandate delay
Cut hours of employees
working up to 39 hours
a week to less than 30
California
Fatburger
Private
Cut some workers to

sub-30 hours per week
Jul-13
California
San Diego Community College

District
Public
Restricted student
employees and other
non-academic workers
to no more than 25
hours per week
Jul-13
California
CKE Restaurants Inc.
Private
Increasing part-time
workforce by replacing
full-time workers
through attrition
Jun-13
California
Kern County
Public
Will limit work

schedules for up to 800
extra-help workers or
reduce workforce
Jun-13
California
Rancho Cucamonga
Public
Cut hours for most parttime workers below 30

per week
California
San Gabriel
Public
Reduced hours for parttimers to fewer than 30

per week.
Jun-13
California
Long Beach
Public
Reducing hours to 27
per week for up to 200
part-timers
May-13
Aug-13
30
Jun-13
California
Tehama County
Public
Limited extra-help
employee work hours to
fewer than 30 per week
California
North of the River Recreation and

Park District
Public
California
Lake County
Public

workers below 30 per
week
Cut hours for extra-help
employees to a limit of
25 per week
California
University of San Francisco
Public
Limited student
employees to one job
capped at 20 hours per
week
May-13
12
Apr-13
Dec-12
Oct-13
Colorado:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Colorado
24.00%
25.41
State
Employer
Colorado
RE-1 Valley School District
Public
Colorado
University of Colorado - Colorado

Springs
Public
Colorado
Colorado Mountain College
Public
Colorado
Fountain Fire Dept.
Public
Colorado
Charco Broiler
Private
Colorado
Durango
Public
Colorado
Mountain Del (Del Taco franchisee)
Private
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
1,270.69
Action
Cut 4.25 full-timeequivalent

paraprofessional
positions to offset cost
of complying with
insurance mandate
Cut student work
hours to a maximum
of 25 per week
Eleven-campus
community college
system cut hours of
adjunct faculty to
fewer than 30 per
week
Cut hours of parttimers to a maximum
of 29 per week
Trimmed work hours
to stay below 50 fulltime equivalent
threshold
Limiting part-timers to
27 hours per week to
avoid $900,000 in
additional health care
costs.
cutting full-time
workforce by 100;
capping part-timers at
28 hours per week
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
8,296
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
May-14
50
May-14
Mar-14
May-13
Apr-13
Apr-13
100
Apr-13
Connecticut:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Connecticut
22.30%
32.83
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
1,641.60
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
5,033
Employee or Contractor? Health Care Law Raises Stakes

February 15, 2015
Gary Cuozzo, owner of the ISG Software Group in Wallingford, Conn., found state authorities so
determined to reclassify his contractors as employees that he decided to outsource hiring to a third-party
staffing agency, even though he estimates that it costs him 20 to 30 percent more than to engage a worker
directly. That figure is rising, too, he said, because the agency he uses just raised its rates 2.5 percent to
cover the expense of complying with the A.C.A. mandate. ''It's getting harder to use somebody as a
subcontractor,'' Mr. Cuozzo said. ''Everything has gotten so complicated that I only hire through an
agency now. I got fed up dealing with it, and now with the Obamacare stuff, the whole thing has gotten
grayer and more difficult.''
Health law hits public-sector part-timers

February 22, 2014
Mark D. Benigni, the superintendent of schools in Meriden, Conn., and a board member of the American
Association of School Administrators, said in an interview that the new health care law was having
''unintended consequences for school systems across the nation.'' In Connecticut, as in many states,
significant numbers of part-time school employees work more than 30 hours a week and do not receive
health benefits. ''Are we supposed to lay off full-time teachers so that we can provide insurance coverage
to part-time employees?'' Mr. Benigni asked. ''If I had to cut five reading teachers to pay for benefits for
substitute teachers, I'm not sure that would be best for our students.''
Delaware:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Delaware
19.80%
17.28
State
Employer
Delaware
Delaware state government
Public
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
863.89
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
1,062
Action
Jobs with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Cut hourly and seasonal

employees to a maximum
of 29.75 hours per week,
affecting education,
correction and homeland
security agencies
376
Oct-13
Florida:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Florida
19.90%
17.84
State
Employer
Florida
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Public
Florida
Bealls Inc. (Department Stores)
Private
Florida
SeaWorld Entertainment
Private
Florida
Eastern Florida State College
Public
Florida
H2Only Renewable Cleaning
Private
Florida
Brevard County
Public
Florida
Buca di Beppo restaurant chain
Private
Florida
Hillsborough Community College
Florida
Florida
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
892.13
Action
Cut hours of all parttime workers to a

maximum of 25 per
week
Restricted part-time
hours to fewer than 30
per week
workers from a
maximum of 32 to 28
per week
employees from 30 to
28 per week
Cutting workers from 8
hours per day to 5.5
hours
Reducing hours for most
of 138 part-time
workers who work more
than 30 hours per week

with 20-49 Workers
20,786
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Dec-13
Sep-13
Sep-13
110
Sep-13
Aug-13
37
Jul-13
Reduced hours to below

30 per week
400
Jul-13
Public
Cut hours of some parttime faculty members
100
Jul-13
St. Petersburg College
Public
Capped courseloads for

adjunct facutly to
equivalent of 27 hours
per week
91
Jul-13
Palm Beach State College
Public
Cut hours for 100 parttimers to 27.5 per week;

895 adjuncts limited to
60% of a full-time
course load
200
Jun-13
Florida
Santa Fe College
Public
Capped part-time hours

at 27.5 per week and
enforced limits on
adjunct course loads
Jun-13
Florida
Tallahassee Community College
Public
Cut hours of some parttime workers to as low

as 24 per week
Jun-13
Florida
Daytona State College
Public
Reduced hours for

adjunct faculty
Apr-13
Florida
Miami Dade College
Public
Enforcing cap of 25
hours per week for parttime workers
Feb-13
Florida
Boca Raton
Public
Cut hours for parttimers to 25 per week.
Dec-12
Florida
RREMC Restaurants (Denny's

franchisee)
Private

workers to 28 per week
Nov-12
Will Obamacare destroy jobs?

September 23, 2013
Richard Clark's cleaning company in Florida had 200 employees, about half of them working full time.
These days it has about 150, with 80% part-time. The downturn explains some of this. But Mr Clark also
blames Barack Obama's health reform. When it comes into effect in January 2015, Obamacare will
require firms with 50 or more full-time employees to offer them affordable health insurance or pay a fine
of $2,000-3,000 per worker. That is a daunting prospect for firms that do not already offer coverage. But
for many, there is a way round the law. Mr Clark says he is "very careful with the threshold". To keep his
full-time workforce below the magic number of 50, he is relying more on part-timers. He is not alone.
More than one in ten firms surveyed by Mercer, a consultancpy-and one in five retail and hospitality
companies-say they will cut workers' hours because of Obamacare. A hundred part-timers can flip as
many burgers as 50 full-timers, and the former will soon be much cheaper.
Florida Coffee Shop Kool Beanz Caf Owner Says ObamaCare Could Put His Shop Out Of
Business. "'Kool Beanz Caf' owner Keith Baxter has been in business for 18 years. He says if he had to
provide health insurance to his employees as the act requires for some businesses he couldn't make it. 'As
much as I would like to provide them with that benefit, it would be too cost prohibitive for me to do it,'
said Baxter. 'No I wouldn't survive,' he said." (Andy Alcock, "Florida Hospitality Group Applauds
ObamaCare Delay," WCTV, 7/10/13)
Profiles In Coverage.
September 29, 2013
After opening the yoga studio 15 months ago, [Jason Seibert] realized he couldn't afford to offer his 14
staffers insurance, though he did offer stipends if they wanted to go out on their own and buy coverage.
No one seemed interested, he said, because most of them got coverage through a spouse.
Georgia:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Georgia
14.50%
14.34
State
Employer
Georgia
Southern Polytechnic State

University
Public
Georgia
Georgia Institute of Technology
Public
Georgia
Chatham County
Public
Georgia
Technical College System of

Georgia
Public
Georgia
City of Gainesville
Georgia
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
717.19
Action
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
7,613
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Limited students to 20
hours of work per week
during school and
capped adjunct teaching
loads
Capped hours for
student and temp
employees at 25 hours
per week and limited
teaching loads for
adjuncts
Reduced hours of parttime and seasonal
workers to fewer than
30 per week
Capped teaching loads
for adjunct faculty
May-14
Public
Began limiting part-time

worker hours
Feb-14
Hall County
Public
Jan-14
Georgia
Fulton County
Public
Georgia
Georgia Military College
Public
Limited all part-time

employees to a
maximum of 28 hours
per week
Cutting part-time and
temp employees who
have been working fulltime without benefits to
fewer than 30 hours per
week
Cut hours of adjunct
faculty to below 30 per
week
Georgia
Cherokee County School Board
Public
Outsourced custodial
services and ground
maintenance
Jul-13
Georgia
Circle K Southeast
Private
Cut hours of some fulltime employees below
May-13
Apr-14
Apr-14
Apr-14
Oct-13
Aug-13
30
Georgia
AAA Parking
Private
Moved half of full-time

workers to part-time
250
Mar-13
Georgia
Columbus
Public
Jan-13
Georgia
PMTD Restaurants LLC

(a franchisee of KFC)
Private
Capped hours for parttime and seasonal

employees at 29 per
week
Cutting hours for parttimers working 30 hours
or slightly above
Gerogia
Kennesaw State University
Public
Limited teaching loads

for part-time faculty
Mar-14
Oct-12
Health Care Law Needs Overturning; From Where I Sit

August 29, 2012
One of the Chamber members runs a family owned business that offers its 320 full-time employees a
limited benefit plan and pays 85 percent of the premium. However, most of the employees elect not to
enroll choosing instead to take home more of their compensation in wages. The company pays a larger
salary to employees who do not enroll in the plan. The owner of the company says that the mandates
scheduled to take effect in 2014 will eliminate the choice employees are given of health benefits or more
dollars on their payroll checks. "For our company we will no longer have the option of providing these
types of plans and our employees will no longer have the freedom to choose how to spend their wages,"
the owner said.
Hawaii:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Hawaii
24.00%
20.13
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
1,006.47
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
(Hawaii had an employer mandate that encouraged part-time work, prior to ObamaCare.)
2,013
Idaho:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Idaho
18.10%
13.4
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
670.06
Action

with 20-49 Workers
1,646
State
Employer
Jobs with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Idaho
Boundary County
Public
Cut hours of full-time

workers at county
garbage dumps to fewer
than 30 per week
Dec-13
Idaho
Boundary County
Public
Cut hours for parttimers to fewer than 30

per week
Jul-13
Illinois:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Illinois
23.30%
25.21
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
1,260.28
Action

with 20-49 Workers
16,167
State
Employer
Illinois
Chicago Cubs
Private
Restricting seasonal
130 hours per month
Aug-14
Illinois
Oakton Community College
Public
Sep-13
Illinois
Palmer Place Restaurant
Private
Illinois
Southern Illinois University
Public
Cut hours of some

adjunct faculty to a
maximum of 27 per
week
Cut hours for some
week
Limited graduate
teaching assistants to
20 hours per week
Illinois
Vcm Inc. (Subway franchisee)
Private
Reduced hours for

hourly wage earners to
below 30 per week
Aug-13
Illinois
Parkland College
Public
Jun-13
Illinois
College of DuPage
Public
Limited hours for parttime, non-teaching

employees to 27.5 per
week
Cut course loads for
some adjunct faculty
Illinois
McHenry County College
Public

adjunct faculty to 24
hours per week
May-13
Illinois
Moraine Valley Community College
Public
Cutting course loads

for adjunct faculty
Apr-13
Illinois
Elmhurst College
Private
Apr-13
Illinois
Boone Community School District
Public
Cut two courses per

semester from
maximum adjunct
teaching load
employees below 30
per week
Illinois
Joliet Junior College
Public

adjunct faculty
Jobs with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Sep-13
Aug-13
May-13
30
Mar-13
Mar-13
Illinois
Illinois Valley Community College
Public
Capped hours for parttimers at 29 per week
Jan-13
Illinois
Rock Valley College
Public
Dec-12
Illinois
Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwiches
Private
Illinois
Plainfield Park District
Public
Capped hours for parttime workers at 25 per

week
Cutting hours for parttimers below 30 per
week
Cut work hours to 27
per week for four parttime workers
Oct-12
Jun-12
Indiana:
Small businesses struggle on health insurance.
November 6, 2014
Brian Adams, who sells fireplaces in Indianapolis, is like many of America's small-business owners. As
the cost of providing health benefits has climbed, he has struggled to afford coverage for his employees a problem the new health care law was designed, in part, to address...And Mr. Adams, like many of his
fellow business owners, is sending employees to the exchanges to buy their own coverage instead.
Indiana's Iconic Bonnie Doon Ice Cream Plant Closed Due In Part To The Anticipated Costs Of
ObamaCare. "An iconic Michiana company is closing. Tuesday, FOX28 talked with owners of the
Bonnie Doon plant and downtown Mishawaka location. They tell us there are many reasons for the
shutdown such as the declining economy and the rise in production costs. But the number one factor? The
anticipated cost of the Affordable Care Act." ("Bonnie Doon Ice Cream Blames Obamacare For Plant
Shutdown," Fox 28, 10/14/13)
The Company's CFO "Confirmed The Anticipation Of The Affordable Care Act Played A
Large Part In The Shut Down." "FOX28 talked with the CFO who confirmed the anticipation
of the Affordable Care Act played a large part in the shut down, something Kyle Hannon, Elkhart
Chamber of Commerce President says many small businesses are wrestling with." ("Bonnie Doon
Ice Cream Blames Obamacare For Plant Shutdown," Fox 28, 10/14/13)
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Indiana
25.80%
20.73
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
1,036.46
State
Employer
Action
Indiana
Muncie Community Schools
Public
Indiana
Noblesville Schools
Public
Cut hours for parttime workers and

substitutes to a
maximum of 29
per week
Cut hours for parttime employees to
a maximum of 29
per week
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
9,835
Jobs with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Aug-14
Jun-14
Indiana
South Madison Community Schools
Public
Indiana
Charles A. Beard Memorial School

Corporation
Public
Indiana
Cloverdale Community School Corporation
Public
Indiana
Daleville Community Schools
Public
Indiana
East Porter County School Corporation
Public
Indiana
Eastern Howard School Corporation
Public
Indiana
Monroe Central School Corporation
Public
Indiana
Nettle Creek School Corporation
Public
Indiana
North West Hendricks School Corporation
Public
Indiana
Northeastern Wayne School Corporation
Public
Indiana
Old National Trail Special Services

Cooperative
Public
Indiana
Salem Community Schools
Public
Cut hours for parttime employees to

fewer than 30 per
week to avoid an
estimated $1.2
million in
insurance costs
Cut hours of
instructional aides
and maintenance
workers to fewer
than 30 per week
Cut hours of
instructional aides
to fewer than 30
per week
Cut hours of
instructional aides
to fewer than 30
per week
Cut hours of
instructional aides,
cafeteria workers
and custodians to
fewer than 30 per
week
Cut hours of
bus drivers and
cafeteria workers
to fewer than 30
per week
Cut hours of
instructional aides
to fewer than 30
per week
Cut hours of
instructional aides
to fewer than 30
per week
Cut hours of
instructional aides
to fewer than 30
per week
Cut hours of
instructional aides
to fewer than 30
per week
Cut hours of noncertified
employees to fewer
than 30 per week
Cut hours of
instructional aides
to fewer than 30
130
Feb-14
Dec-13
Dec-13
Dec-13
45
Dec-13
Dec-13
Dec-13
Dec-13
Dec-13
Dec-13
Dec-13
Dec-13
per week
Indiana
South Putnam Community School

Corporation
Public
Indiana
Union School Corporation
Public
Indiana
Western School Corporation
Public
Indiana
Western Wayne Schools
Public
Indiana
Indiana state gov't
Public
Indiana
John Glenn School Corp.
Public
Indiana
Metropolitan School District of Martinsville
Public
Indiana
Monroe-Gregg School District
Public
Indiana
Mooresville Conolidated School Corp.
Public
Indiana
North Lawrence Community Schools
Public
Indiana
South Henry School Corp.
Public
Cut hours of
instructional aides
to fewer than 30
per week
Cut hours of
cafeteria workers
and substitute
teachers to fewer
than 30 per week
Cut hours of
instructional aides
to fewer than 30
per week
Cut hours of
instructional aides
to fewer than 30
per week
Cut hours for parttime and temp
employees from a
maximum of 37.5
hours per week to
fewer than 30
Cut hours for
instructional aides
and other parttimers to fewer
than 30 per week
Cut hours for
instructional aides
than 30 per week
Cut hours for
instructional aides
than 30 per week
Cut hours for
instructional aides
than 30 per week
Cut hours for
instructional aides
than 30 per week
Cut hours for
instructional aides
Dec-13
Dec-13
Dec-13
Dec-13
Oct-13
Oct-13
Oct-13
Oct-13
Oct-13
Oct-13
Oct-13
than 30 per week
Indiana
Southwest Parke Community School Corp.
Public
Indiana
Southwestern Jefferson County Consolidated

School Corp.
Public
Indiana
Vincennes Community School Corp.
Public
Indiana
Howard County
Public
Indiana
Vincennes
Public
Indiana
Ball State University
Public
Indiana
Hancock County
Public
Indiana
Morgan County
Public
Indiana
Clay County
Public
Indiana
DeKalb County
Public
Indiana
Eastbrook Community Schools
Public
Indiana
Floyd County
Public
Cut hours for

instructional aides
than 30 per week
Cut hours for
instructional aides
than 30 per week
Cut hours for
instructional aides
and noncertified
employees to fewer
than 30 per week
Cut hours of parttimers to a
maximum of 28
per week
Cut hours of parttimers to 29 per
week
Limited work
hours for graduate
assistants
Capped hours for
part-time workers
at 29 per week
Cut part-time hours
from a maximum
of 35 to 28 per
week
Capped part-time
work at 28 hours
per week
Limited part-timers
to 28 hours per
week
Cut hours for
instructional aides
to 29.5 per week
from between 32.5
and 35.
Cutting hours for
up to 72 parttimers to 28 hours
per week
Oct-13
Oct-13
Oct-13
Oct-13
Aug-13
Aug-13
Jul-13
Jul-13
Jun-13
Jun-13
39
Jun-13
Jun-13
Indiana
Highland
Public
Indiana
Indiana University
Public
Indiana
Ivy Tech Community College
Public
Indiana
Kosciusko County
Public
Indiana
Lakeview Christian School
Private
Indiana
Madison Consolidated Schools
Public
Indiana
Madison-Grant United School Corp.
Public
Indiana
Marshall County
Public
Indiana
Mississinewa Community Schools
Public
Indiana
Perry Central School Corp.
Public
Indiana
Shelbyville Central School System
Public
Limited hours parttime employees

can work to fewer
than 30 per week;
suspended limit
due to employer
mandate delay
Capped hours for
part-timers at 29
per week;
outsourced 50
maintenance
personnel
Limited hours for
adjunct faculty at
23 campuses to
avoid estimated
$10 million in
Affordable Care
Act costs for those
who work 30 or
more hours
Capped part-time
hours at 25 per
week
Limited new parttimers to 29 hours
per week
Cut hours for
cafeteria workers,
instructional aides
and bus drivers
below 30 per week
Cut hours for noncertified staff from
up to 35 hours per
week to below 30
Cut hours for parttimes to 28 per
week
Cut 15 minutes per
day for three
teacher aides
Cut hours of parttime instructional
assistants by 6 per
week, with
offsetting wage
hike
Cut hours
substitute teachers,
bus drivers and
coaches below 30
per week
Jun-13
Jun-13
Jun-13
Jun-13
Jun-13
Jun-13
Jun-13
Jun-13
Jun-13
Jun-13
100
Jun-13
Indiana
Speedway Schools
Public
Indiana
Starke County
Public
Indiana
Wolfes Auto Auction
Private
Indiana
Eminence Community Schools
Public
Indiana
Lafayette School Corp.
Public
Indiana
Martin County
Public
Indiana
Benton Community Schools
Public
Indiana
Miami County
Public
Indiana
Eastern Hancock School Board
Public
Indiana
Fayette County School Corp.
Public
Indiana
Fort Wayne Community Schools
Public
Indiana
Gibson County
Public
Indiana
Greencastle Community Schools
Public
Cut hours for

teaching assistants
to 29 per week
with offsetting pay
hike
Cut hours for parttimers to maximum
of 130 per month
Some full-time
workers cut to
part-time; parttime hours capped
at 28 per week
Cut hours for parttimers to a
maximum of 29
per week
Cut part-time hours
below 30 per week
Capped part-time
hours at 28 per
week
Cut hours for
uninsured parttimers to fewer
than 30 per week
with offsetting pay
hike
Cut hours of parttimers to a
maximum of 28
per week
Limit most noncontract employees
who worked 30 to
39 hours per week
to 29.
Cut hours for some
part-timers to 27.5
per week
Cut hours of parttime teaching aides
and cafeteria
workers from 30 to
25 per week
Cut part-time hours
from a maximum
of 40 to 23.5 per
week
Cut hours of
instructional aides
and cafeteria
workers to 29.5 per
week
30
Jun-13
Jun-13
10
Jun-13
Jun-13
235
Jun-13
Jun-13
Jun-13
Jun-13
May-13
90
May-13
610
May-13
May-13
54
May-13
Indiana
Hancock Madison Shelby Educational

Services
Public
Indiana
Tipton County
Public
Indiana
Vigo County School Corp.
Public
Indiana
White River Valley School District
Public
Indiana
Zionsville Community Schools
Public
Indiana
Crawford County
Public
Indiana
Vanderburgh County
Public
Indiana
North Putnam Community Schools
Public
Indiana
Northwestern School Corp.
Public
Indiana
Taylor Community Schools
Public
Cut hours for

special ed
assistants from 3537.5 per week to
28
Cut maximum
number of hours to
28 per week from
32
employees below
30 per week,
leading to sharp
cut-backs in field
trips; suspended
hour cuts in
response to delay
of employer
mandate
employees from 30
to 29 per week
Cut hours for
coaches, and
substitutes to a
maximum of 29
per week
Lowered cap on
part-time hours
from 32 to 29 per
week
Lowered cap on
part-time hours
from 39 to 29 per
week
Cut hours of
noncertified
employees to a
maximum of 29
per week
Cut hours of
instructional
assistants to 25 per
week
Cut hours of
cafeteria workers,
custodians and
teaching aides to
28 per week
48
May-13
May-13
May-13
11
May-13
100
May-13
May-13
May-13
May-13
12
May-13
31
May-13
Indiana
School City of Mishawaka
Public
Indiana
Shelby Eastern Schools
Public
Indiana
Southwestern Consolidated School District
Public
Indiana
Kewanee Community School District
Public
Indiana
North Harrison Community Schools
Public
Indiana
Shoals Community Schools
Public
Indiana
Bartholomew County
Public
Indiana
Delaware County
Public
Indiana
Northwestern Consolidated School District
Public
Indiana
Richland-Bean Blossom Community School

Corp.
Public
Indiana
Eastern Greene Schools
Public
Cut hours for

cafeteria workers
and other support
staff to fewer than
30 per week
Cut hours of parttime employees to
28.75 hours per
week
Cut hours for
custodians and bus
drivers to 29 per
week
Cut hours of
support staff from
up to 32 hours per
week to 29
Cut hours of
noncertified
employees,
including
instructional
assistants, bus
drivers and
cafeteria workers
to 29.75 per week
Cut hours of
instructional
assistants, cooks,
custodians and
other noncertified
employees to 29
per week
Cut part-time hours
to 28 hours per
week
Limited part-time
employees to 29
hours per week
Cut part-time hours
to a maximum of
29 per week
Instructional aides
limited to 29.5
hours per week
Cut hours for
hourly employees,
such as teaching
aides, custodians
and bus drivers to a
maximum of 28
per week
May-13
May-13
May-13
20
May-13
May-13
May-13
40
Apr-13
Apr-13
41
Apr-13
Apr-13
40
Apr-13
Indiana
Anderson Community Schools
Public
Indiana
Putnam County
Public
Indiana
Warsaw Community Schools
Public
Cut hours for paraeducators and

food-service
workers to fewer
than 30 per week
with offsetting pay
hike
Cut hours for parttime workers to
maximum of 29
per week
Cut hours for parttime employees
from 32 to 27.5 per
week
Apr-13
Feb-13
Oct-12
Iowa:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Iowa
16.90%
13.31
State
Employer
Iowa
University of Northern Iowa
Public
Iowa
Lee County
Public
Iowa
Spencer Community School District
Public
Iowa
Des Moines Area Community

College
Public
Iowa
Indianola Community School

District
Public
Iowa
Tama County
Public
Iowa
Clear Lake School Board
Iowa
Iowa
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
665.64
Action

to a maximum of 20
per week
Enforced existing parttime cap of 28 hours
per week
Reduced hours for
some part-timers from
32 to below 30 per
week
Put new cap on adjunct
hours during summer
and extended work
limits to continuing
education courses

with 20-49 Workers
3,428
Jobs with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Apr-14
Jul-13
65
Jun-13
Jun-13
Part-time hours cut for

up to 125 below 30 per
week
employees to less than
30 per week
May-13
Public
Outsourced provision
of substitute teachers
and paraprofessionals
Apr-13
Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont
Community Schools
Public
Cut hours of paraeducators from about

37 to 29 per week
25
Apr-13
Cedar Falls
Public
Cut part-time hours

from 32 per week to 29
59
Nov-12
May-13
Even the employer-insured people are rocked by Obamacare changes.

December 17, 2013
Sharon Wilson, an office manager in Iowa, figured she would lock in a good deal on health care coverage
for her five-person biofuels company by renewing its policy before Obamacare kicked in for 2014. But
she balked when her agent came back with a 81 percent rate hike, anyway...Her company, Prairie City-
based Midwest Renewable Biofuels, had experienced rate hikes during her career, Ms. Wilson said, but
not like this. Plus, the previous jumps were accompanied by explanations for why premiums were rising.
Ms. Wilson, the office manager, said she wasted a lot of time trying to get onto the federal small-business
exchange online before an insurance agent helped her get through SHOP's paper-based process. Like
many other small-business executives, she said she is working quickly to lock in coverage by January that
is comparable to what the company had this past year.
Wellmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield Closed Its Sioux City Office, Eliminating 106 Local Jobs Due To
ObamaCare. "Citing concerns about the new federal health insurance law, Wellmark Blue Cross/Blue
Shield said Wednesday it will shutter its First Administrators office in Sioux City, eliminating 106 jobs."
(Dave Dreeszen, "Sioux City Insurance Office To Close; 106 Local Jobs Lost," Sioux City Journal ,
7/10/13)
ObamaCare's "Ever-Increasing Number And Complexity Of Federal Regulations,

Mandates And The Rising Costs Associated With These Changes" Were To
Blame."Wellmark, Iowa's largest health insurer, attributed the decision to the 'ever-increasing
number and complexity of federal regulations, mandates and the rising costs associated with these
changes.' Major provisions of the Affordable Care Act, which revamps the nation's health care
system, take effect next year." (Dave Dreeszen, "Sioux City Insurance Office To Close; 106
Local Jobs Lost," Sioux City Journal , 7/10/13)
Kansas:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Kansas
28.20%
24.26
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
1,212.94
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
Action
5,061
State
Employer
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Kansas
Kansas University
Public
Cut student work

schedules to fewer than
30 hours per week
Jun-14
Kansas
Butler Community College
Public
Limited hours for parttimers and students to

28 per week and cap
adjunct teaching loads
Mar-14
Kansas
Salina Family YMCA
Private
Cut part-time employee

schedules to a maximum
of 25 hours per week
Kansas
Kansas Turnpike Authority
Public
Toll collectors limited to

24 hours per week; up to
93 will see hours cut
20
Date of
Action
or
Report
Sep-13
May-13
Kentucky:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Kentucky
21.20%
16.88
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
843.76
Action
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
5,057
State
Employer
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Kentucky
Murray State University
Public
Cut teaching loads for

adjunct faculty
Oct-13
Kentucky
Joe Bologna's Italian Pizzeria &

Restaurant
Private
Closed for business on

Monday, reducing
employees to fall below
50 full-time-equivalent
threshold
Apr-13
A Kentucky Restaurant Owner Had To Cut Staff To Get Below ObamaCare's 50 Employee
Threshold. "He said he already has reduced his staff from 54 to 47 and is closed on Mondays. He said
that his hard-working grandparents raised 11 children without insurance." (Jack Brammer, "Barr, Guthrie,
Yarmuth Get An Earful About Health Care Law At Lexington Hearing," Lexington Herald Leader,
8/27/13)
Louisiana:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Louisiana
9.00%
7.88
State
Employer
Louisiana
McNeese State University
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
394.19
Action
Public
Lowered cap on student

work hours to 29 per
week
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
2,558
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
May-14
Obamacare's Job Killing Employer Mandate

October 2, 2014
Panola Pepper Corporation was started for all the right reasons. Located in the town of Lake Providence
in Louisianas East Carroll Parish, the hot sauce company has been providing employment to those who
live in one of the nations poorest areas. Year after year, East Carroll Parish ranks among the top 10 U.S.
counties with the highest poverty rates. Time magazine once named the town of Lake Providence
the poorest place in America.
Founded in 1983, Panola Pepper began as a wintertime business to give farm workers income during the
three-month gap between the planting and harvest seasons. Employees would produce, bottle, and label
hot sauce so they would not have to go on government assistance to make it through the winter.
Fortunately, the product was so well received that the business became full-time. Thirty-one years later,
Panola Pepper employs 35 people and continues to grow.
One major roadblock stands in the way of that growth, however. The employer mandate of the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act
In the case of Panola Pepper Corporation, President and CEO Mike Coullard explains that his small
business simply can neither afford to accommodate the mandate (by providing insurance for all
employees) nor pay the penalty fines. While operating within a very small profit margin in this
impoverished area of the country, Panola Pepper must now consider machinery options to replace
employees.
A Lafayette, Louisiana Business Was Forced To Lay Off 41 Employees Due To Changes Under
ObamaCare "Effective today, 41 employees at the Schumacher Group in Lafayette, have lost their jobs.
According to a company letter, the Patient Financial Management Services division is being cut because
of changes to health care law from ObamaCare. A Schumacher Group spokesperson says the department
can't handle an increase in patient needs." (KATC, 5/1/13)
Louisiana Restaurant Owner Frank Dedman: I Had To Let A Couple Of My Full-Timers Go.
Frank Dedman, the owner of Frank's Restaurant, told News 2 he made cuts to his staff to be in
compliance with the new rules and regulations. We've had people here for quite a few years, majority of
them were part-timers," said Dedman. "I had to let a couple of my full-timers go. (Brittany Weiss,
Restaurant Cuts Staff, Blames Health Reform, WBRZ, 6/15/13)
Obamacare delay doesn't give business a free pass.
July 26, 2013
Mehaffey used Dot's Diner as an example. Its owner, Larry Katz, testified before the Senate Small
Business and Entrepreneurship Committee on Thursday about what the requirement means for his six
diners, which collectively have 65 full-time employees. Because he owns all six, they are lumped together
and put his business just above the 50-employee threshold. "Each diner could be organized as separate
company, for liability purposes, but for the Affordable Care Act they get lumped together as one
employer," Mehaffey said.
Maine:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Maine
14.60%
11.11
State
Employer
Maine
Mainesubway (Subway franchisee)
Private
Loss in Annual Earnings

($) Income Losses since
ACA became Law in
Workers
555.26

with 20-49 Workers
Action
Jobs with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Reduced worker hours

to no more than 29 per
week
50
Aug-13
1,206
Maryland:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Maryland
17.70%
18.35
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
917.53
Action
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
6,305
State
Employer
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Maryland
Carroll County Public Schools
Public
Restricted hourly
workers to a maximum
of 28 hours per week
Aug-14
Maryland
Carroll Community College
Public
Limited course loads for

adjunct faculty
Oct-13
Maryland
Community College of Baltimore

County
Public
Cut course load limit for

adjunct faculty
Oct-13
Maryland
Howard Community College
Public
Lowered limit on course

loads and hours worked
for adjunct faculty
Jun-13
Maryland
Republic Foods (Burger King

franchise operator)
Private
All new hires capped at

29 hours per week
May-13
Maryland
Ocean City
Public
Maryland
Royal Farms convenience stores
Private
Maryland
Chesapeake College
Public
Reduced hours for parttime workers to a

maximum of 28 per
week
Cut hours for most fulltime and part-time
week
Capped adjunct faculty
40
Date of
Action
or
Report
Apr-13
Dec-12
Dec-12
Massachusetts:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Massachusetts
19.40%
24.78
State
Employer
Massachusetts
Staples
Private
Massachusetts
Worldwide TechServices
Private
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
1,238.93
Action
Cut part-time hours to a

maximum of 25 per
week
Cut all field service
technicians to a
maximum of 29 hours
per week; temporarily
eased restriction after
delay of employer
mandate
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
8,302
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Dec-13
Dec-12
Michigan:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Michigan
8.20%
7.62
State
Employer
Michigan
Cass City Public Schools
Public
Michigan
Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker

Schools
Public
Michigan
Home Instead Senior Care franchise
Michigan
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
380.93
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
3,852
Action
Jobs with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Cut hours of bus

drivers and
paraprofessionals to a
maximum of 29 per
week
Cut hours of
paraprofessionals from
38.75 per week to a
maximum of 29
20
Jun-14
Private
Cut work hours to

below 30 per week
30
Grand Rapids Community College
Public

for adjunct faculty
Mar-14
Michigan
Western Michigan University
Public

to a maximum of 25
per week during fall
and spring semesters
Dec-13
Michigan
Auburn Hills
Public
Sep-13
Michigan
Meridian Public Schools
Michigan
Central Michigan University
Public
Michigan
Delta County
Public
Reduced hours for

part-time, seasonal
30 per week
Cut schedules of
hourly workers to
fewer than 30 hours
per week
Limited hours for
student workers to 25
per week
at 29 per week; made
temporary exemption
for corrections officers
after mandate delay
Michigan
Kenowa Hills Public Schools
Public
Outsourced school bus

transportation, partly to
avoid providing health
benefits to 30 drivers
Apr-14
Apr-14
15
Sep-13
140
Jul-13
Jul-13
Jul-13
Michigan
Russ' Restaurant
Private
Cut hours of nonmanaging employees

to maximum of 25
hours per week
Jun-13
Michigan
Baldwin Public Library
Public

at 28 per week
Jun-13
Michigan
Birmingham
Public
Cut seasonal employee

hours below average of
30 per week
May-13
Michigan
Dearborn
Public
May-13
Michigan
Iosco County
Public
Michigan
Tuscola County
Public
Michigan
Kalamazoo Valley Community

College
Public
Michigan
St. Clair Community College
Public
Michigan
Portage
Public
Capped hours of parttime and seasonal

employees at average
of 28 per week
apped hours of parttime employees at 28
per week
at less than 30 per
week
Reduced maximum
hours for part-time
faculty
Limited hours of
adjunct professors and
part-time support staff
to fewer than 30 per
week
at 28 per week
Michigan
Vassar Public Schools
Public
Apr-13
Michigan
Van Buren Township
Public
Cut hours for foodservice workers to

maximum of 29 per
week
at 29 per week
Michigan
Milford Township
Public
Cut hours for parttimers to 28 per week
Jan-13
Michigan
New Baltimore
Public
Cut hours for parttimers, including police

cadets, to 28 per week
Jan-13
Michigan
Directions In Research
Private
Capped call-center jobs

at 29.5 hours per week
Jan-13
Michigan
Kga Group (Subway franchisee)
Private
Part-time hours cut

below 30 per week
May-13
May-13
Apr-13
Apr-13
Apr-13
Mar-13
60
Nov-12
Minnesota:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Minnesota
14.70%
14.69
State
Employer
Minnesota
Hastings School District
Public
Minnesota
Faribault
Public
Minnesota
Hayfield Community Schools
Public
Minnesota
Mankato
Public
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
734.41
Action
Limiting hours for new

classroom aides, food
service workers and
bus drivers to a
maximum of 5.75 per
day
Cut hours of employees
working 30-to-38 hours
per week to 29;
temporarily delayed
move due to delay of
employer mandate
Cut hours of
paraprofessionals to
fewer than 30 per
week, with $1/hr raise;
rescinded policy after
mandate delay
Limited part-time
hours to 29 per week.
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
4,979
Jobs with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Nov-13
Jun-13
20
Jun-13
Mar-13
US employers slashing worker hours to avoid Obamacare insurance mandate

Avita Samuels has worked at the Mall of America in Minneapolis for the last four years, juggling a sales
job with her studies in political science and law at the University of Minnesota. The 24-year-old has been
the top sales associate for the last three years and works between 29 and 35 hours a week. But over the
past few months, she said, she has watched as friends working in stores around her have their hours and
benefits slashed - and she's worried that she will be next"It's a really scary situation," said Samuels,
who earns $9.25 an hour and is trying to reduce a student loan debt of close to $50,000. She currently
receives subsidized healthcare through her university, but it runs out next year, when she had hoped her
employer healthcare would kick in. "Technically, I should be eligible," she said. "But at least 20 stores
around me have cut hours. I live paycheck to paycheck. I have credit card debts. It's a balancing act. I'm
afraid I won't be able to afford healthcare."
Mississippi:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Mississippi
11.00%
7.66
State
Employer
Mississippi
Mississippi State University
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
383.2
Action
Public
Capped hours for nonbenefits-eligible

employees, including
student workers, at 28
per week
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
1,595
Jobs with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Mar-14
Missouri:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Missouri
23.90%
20.18
State
Employer
Missouri
University of Central Missouri
Public
Missouri
Three Rivers College
Public
Missouri
Ozarks Technical Community

College
Public
Missouri
Drury University
Private
Missouri
Maritz Research
Missouri
Moberly Area Community College
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
1,008.81
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
Action
8,507
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Cut hours for parttimers, including

adjuncts to fewer than 30
per week
for adjunct faculty
Oct-13
Cut teaching hours for

part-time faculty to a
maximum of 24 per
week
loads
Jul-13
Private
Cut part-time hours to 25

per week
Jun-13
Public
Reduced number of
courses adjunct faculty
are eligible to teach.
Apr-13
Aug-13
Jul-13
Montana:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Montana
24.40%
18.69
State
Employer
Montana
Flathead Valley Community College
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
934.74
Action
Public

for adjunct faculty
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
1,655
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
25
Date of
Action
or
Report
Nov-13
Nebraska:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Nebraska
22.10%
17.83
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
891.72
Action
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
2,924
State
Employer
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specifie
d
Date of
Action
or
Report
Nebraska
Cabela's
Private

of 28 per week
Mar-13
Nebraska
City of Omaha
Public

of 28 per week
Aug-14
Nebraska
Mid-Plains Community College
Public
Nebraska
Lexington Board of Education
Public
Cut hours of adjunct

faculty, clerical and
maintenance workers to
a maximum of 28 per
week
Cut hours of some parttimers to 28.5 per week,
providing offsetting raise
Nebraska
Blair Community Schools
Public
Cut hours for bus drivers

and teacher aides to no
more than 29 per week
Jun-13
Nebraska
Plattsmouth Board of Education
Public
Capped hours of noncertified employees at 29

per week
Jun-13
Nebraska
Douglas County West Community

Schools
Public
Cut part-time shifts by

about 45 minutes a day
12
May-13
Nebraska
Papillion-La Vista school district
Public
Cut part-time hours

below 30 per week
281
May-13
Nebraska
Westside Community Schools
Public
Capped hours of most

part-time employees
below 30 per week
May-13
Nebraska
City of Bellevue
Public
Apr-13
Nebraska
Ralston School District
Public

employees to a
maximum of 28 per
week
Cut hours for
below 30 per week
10
Sep-13
20
Jun-13
Apr-13
Nebraska
Springfield Platteview Community

Schools
Public
Cut 7.5 hour days to less

than 6 hours for
paraprofessionals
Nebraska
Cutchall Management restaurant

company
Private
Nebraska
Omega Foods Inc. (Wendy's

franchisee)
Private
Capped new part-time

hires at 28 hours per
week; lifted cap after
delay of employer
mandate
Cut hours to 28 per week
for non-management
43
Apr-13
Feb-13
100
Jan-13
Nevada:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Nevada
11.70%
10.66
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
533.14
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
1,733
Businesses in Southern Nevada brace for Obamacare's impact

March 17, 2013
La Belle Terre Breads business is rising as steadily as the sourdough that brackets its ham-and-Brie
sandwiches.
The west-side bakerys French breads, strawberry crepes, chocolate-almond croissants and coffee
macarons have lured in so many customers since it opened on Dec. 4 that managing partner Brian HagerMany is already weighing evening hours. And a big Strip hotel just signed La Belle Terre to supply
breads and pastries
Hager-Many who said startup costs mean he wont take a paycheck for at least a year is eyeing
2014s federal employer insurance mandate. The law wont apply immediately to his business because it
exempts companies with fewer than 50 full-time-equivalent workers. But as La Belle Terre grows, HagerMany fears there may be consequences.
Im definitely not going to want to go past 50 people, he said. I will have to figure out how to do more
with less. Think of it like a pie: You can only cut the pie in so many ways. How am I going to get the job
done? How am I going to pay the people Ive got?
Businesses in Southern Nevada brace for Obamacare's impact
March 17, 2013
Timothy Wulf, a retired economics professor who owns JJ of Reno, said he began cutting workers 18
months ago, as soon as he realized his staff of more than 100 put him in the laws coverage bulls-eye. He
sold one of his three stores, retrained workers to handle more duties and invested in labor-saving
technologies. Automated online ordering, for example, replaced the equivalent of two full-time workers.
In all, JJ of Reno pared 20 percent from its payroll. Include the part-time nature of his workforce, and the
company is down to 42 full-time-equivalent workers. And where Wulf once dreamed of owning seven
stores, he said hes content with two for now.
Why would we bother opening more stores now? Youre just opening a store to pay health care
benefits, Wulf said.
HEALTH CARE QUARTERLY: Reform presents conundrum for businesses

December 1, 2013
No one tracks local changes in full- versus part-time employment, but Cancela pointed to U.S. Chamber
of Commerce studies showing that 31 percent of franchised small and midsized businesses have already
cut hours more than a year before the employer mandate takes effect on Jan. 1, 2015. Another 27 percent
said theyve replaced full-timers with part-timers. Among nonfranchised businesses, 12 percent have cut
hours, and 12 percent have swapped out full-timers.
Metro Pizza hasnt cut hours among the 240 employees at any of its six Las Vegas locations, and it
doesnt want to, co-founder Sam Facchini said.
Weve run a family like business for a third of a century in Las Vegas, and we understand that we cannot
do it without our employees, Facchini said. First and foremost, it would be awfully hard to cut a fulltime employees hours down under 30 a week without really devastating that persons lifestyle. But
youre also changing the business model weve structured. We cant provide that pizza-dining experience
without great employees who are happy to be there and who believe in what we believe in.
Still, 75 percent of Metros employees work fewer than 40 hours a week, and 90 percent work
around that 30-hour mark. That means Metros owners, like legions of other businesses, could have
decisions to make as the employer mandate looms in 2014, Facchini said. Forget about merely
cutting hours; Metro may have to raise prices, too.
Its a matter of business survival in many cases, and our company would be no exception, he said. We
would need to be very mindful of how we make the math work so that we could pay our bills week to
week and month to month. Its that way for almost any business. I think pushing that full-time threshold
down to 30 hours actually destroys jobs, I really do.
New Hampshire:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
New
Hampshire
19.60%
18.44
State
Employer
New
Hampshire
Community College System of New

Hampshire
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
922.22
Action
Public
Capped adjunct faculty

Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
1,773
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Apr-13
Obamacare at the Crossroads: NH companies look for ways to pay new fees.
August 12, 2013
Keith Decker, president of High Liner Food, sees only one outcome from Obamacare: higher cost to his
organization and his employees for health insurance... Decker said the company is not changing any of its
health insurance offerings to employees because of the Affordable Care Act, but is bracing for the cost,
particularly two fees that take effect in 2014 -- the ACA Insurer Fee and the ACA Reinsurance Fee.
New Jersey:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
New
Jersey
26.50%
33.59
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
1,679.37
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
Action
13,158
State
Employer
New Jersey
College Hunks Hauling Junk/College

Hunks Moving
Private
New Jersey
Middletown Township Public

Schools
Public
New Jersey
Tom's River
Public
Will cut part-time hours

to 25 per week, effective
July 2014
Aug-13
New Jersey
Bergen Community College
Public

loads
Aug-13
New Jersey
NEMF trucking company
Private
400
New Jersey
City of Burlington Public Schools
Public
Cut hours for dock

workers and customer
service reps from 33 per
week to a maximum of
29
Outsourced provision of
paraprofessionals and
substitute teachers
New Jersey
Livingston Public Schools
Public
Cut hours of
instructional aides from
30 to 28.75 per week
65
New Jersey
Little Falls Board of Education
Public
Capped hours of
paraprofessionals below
30 per week
New Jersey
Pompton Lakes Board of Education
Public
New Jersey
Sparta Area Schools
Public
Cut hours for

instructional aides below
30 per week, with
offsetting pay hike
Cut hours for
30 per week; postponed
cuts after one-year delay
of employer mandate
Limiting new hires to

week
Cut hours for
30 per week
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Oct-13
178
Sep-13
Jul-13
Jul-13
Jul-13
Jun-13
48
Jun-13
Jun-13
New Jersey
Hanover Township
Public

maximum of 28 per
week; rescinded rule
after delay of mandate
May-13
New Jersey
Middletown Township
Public
Cut part-time hours to

New Jersey
Union County College
Public
Limited adjunct faculty

teaching loads
Apr-13
New Jersey
Franklin Township Board of

Education
Public
Voted to outsource
school aides and child
study team services
Apr-13
New Jersey
Clinton-Glen Gardner School

District
Public
Apr-13
New Jersey
Mount Ephraim Board of Education
Public
New Jersey
Kean University
Public
Cut hours for

paraprofessionals from
35 to 28 per week; in
July a judge ordered the
board to rescind its
action
Cut paraprofessionals
hours from 6 per day to
5.5
Cut adjunct course loads
25
May-13
Feb-13
210
Nov-12
Seniors flounder with Obamacare.

December 12, 2013
Some are coming in as new enrollees into Medicare and getting information as the nation's population
gets older. But for others, like 85-year-old Carmine Randozzo, the cancellation of his policy is forcing
him to shop for a new one. "Thanks to Obamacare, my H.M.O with Aetna that had no monthly fee is
being cancelled and in its place is a $150 monthly plan for the same plan," said Randozzo. "They sent out
a nurse to my home to update their medical records. He told me all the patients that he is seeing were
cancelled and asking the same question." The Rutherford resident had to shop for a new plan for the first
time in 15 years after receiving a cancellation notice from his insurance company.
New Mexico:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
New
Mexico
15.80%
11.79
State
Employer
New
Mexico
New Mexico State University
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
589.27
Action
Public
Capped graduate-student
work hours at 25 per
week
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
1,809
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
May-13
A Manager Of A Restaurant In Mesilla, NM Has Had To Reduce Employee Hours To 30 Hours

AWeek. You have to realize that businesses and business owners don't pay taxes or employee
insurancebills or the electric bill or anything else. The customers pay for everything a business buys, said
Jerry Harrell, manager with the Double Eagle restaurant in Mesilla. Just because you're a business
doesn't mean you get a magic money tree. He said that for some businesses affected by the mandate, the
only viable options are to cut hours and/or raise prices. Harrell said the Double Eagle has had to make
work schedules rigid so they can plan who is working more than 30 hours and who is not.
(Brock Stockberger, Employers Cut Hours Year Ahead Of ObamaCare Employer Mandate, Las Cruces
Sun News,1/20/14)
An Employee Of A Polling Company Is Having His Hours Cut By 25 Percent. Kirk Neff
wassuccinct. I don't know what we're going to do, the Las Crucen said. I'm always keeping my
eyes open. Neff has a job-- he works the phones for a polling company -- but recently learned he
wasgoing to be dropped from full-time to part-time employment as his employer adjusts costs
aheadof the Affordable Care Act's mandatory health care coverage. I found out my hours were
being cutby 25 percent, Neff said. That's 25 percent of my monthly income gone. (Brock
Stockberger, Employers CutHours Year Ahead Of ObamaCare Employer Mandate, Las Cruces
Sun News,1/20/14)
A Physical Therapy Technician Is Having Her Hours Cut Despite Having Her Own
Insurance. Michelle Daun Ortiz, a physical therapy technician, said she sees the writing on the
wall. I know that my hours are going to get cut but I don't think that's fair because I have my
own health insurance, Ortiz said on the Sun-News Facebook page. I don't think it should affect
people who have their own insurance out side of work. (Brock Stockberger, Employers Cut
Hours Year Ahead Of ObamaCare EmployerMandate, Las Cruces Sun News,1/20/14)
New York:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
New
York
20.20%
26.99
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
1,349.31
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
Action
21,072
State
Employer
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
New York
Finger Lakes Community College
Public

adjunct faculty
Aug-13
New York
Waldbaum's Supermarket
Private
Cut hours and health

care for most full-time
employees below 30 per
week
Apr-13
New York
Hudson Valley Community College
Public

faculty
Mar-13
New York
CY Farms
Private
Eliminated 20 jobs to
stay below 50 full-timeequivalent threshold
New York
Bowlmor Lanes
Private
Plan to shift some fulltime workers to parttime and limit hours to

20
Date of
Action
or
Report
Feb-13
Mar-11
Bosses Face Affordable Care Act Deadline; Employers Must Make Changes to Employees' Health
Insurance Before Year-End.
October 1, 2014
The clock is ticking for Tommy Cain and thousands of other U.S. employers facing deadlines to make
changes to the health insurance they offer their employees under the Affordable Care Act. Mr. Cain has
already met one of the law's key requirements: offer health insurance to at least 70% of full-time staffers
by 2015, or face penalties. Back in January, he put a no-frills plan in place for his 250 employees. His
Gulf Coast grocery chain offers to pay 60% of premiums costs, deducting $25 weekly from the paychecks
of those who opt for the coverage.
A New York Small Businessman "Says He Has No Plans To Add Workers" Because Of
ObamaCare. "Ernie Canadeo, president of EGC Group, a Long Island, N.Y., advertising and marketing
firm with 46 employees, says he has no plans to add workers. if sales growth is moderate, he likely
would try to stay below 50, knowing the insurance requirement will kick in in 2015." ("Businesses May
Hire More After Delay Of Health Law," USA Today, 7/8/13)
North Carolina:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
North Carolina
11.60%
9.72
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
486.25
State
Employer
Action
North
Carolina
North Carolina State University
Public
North
Carolina
Pierce Management Group (assisted living

centers)
Private
North
Carolina
Forsyth Technical Community College
Public
North
Carolina
Wilkes Community College
Public
North
Carolina
Henderson
Public
North
Carolina
Rutherford County
Public
North
Carolina
Carlie Cs
Private
North
Carolina
Five Guys Burgers and Fries franchise
Private
Capped student
work hours and
adjunct teaching
loads
Cutting some
workers to fewer
than 30 hours
per week
Reduced hours
for adjunct
faculty to below
30 per week
Reduced
teaching loads
for adjunct
faculty to below
30 hours per
week and had to
cut some courses
as a result
Limited hours
part-timers can
work to less than
30 per week
Lowered cap on
part-time hours
from 37 to 29
per week
Cut part-time
hours below 30
per week for up
to 150 workers
Plans to cut
hours or
positions among
60 workers
clocking more
than 30 hours
per week
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
6,562
Jobs with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Jun-14
47
Apr-14
Aug-13
Aug-13
Jul-13
Jul-13
May13
Mar-13
What the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Means for Entrepreneurs.
May 20, 2014
In 2012 [Ron] Holt was in the midst of opening his 13th location in Raleigh, N.C., when he learned about
the impact the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commonly known as Obamacare,
would have on his 160-employee business. Because he has more than 50 full-time workers, he'd now have
to provide them with health insurance--not common in his industry. The mandate would cost his company
as much as $300,000.
Big decision facing small businesses on health insurance.
October 22, 2014
Eric Nelson, who owns 11 Subway restaurants that employ more than 100 people, will have to start
offering health benefits to his hourly workers or face the possibility of tax penalties under the Affordable
Care Act. Nelson will have to offer insurance to about 30 of his employees next year, based on how many
typically work the ACA's full-time equivalent of 30 hours per week. "It's going to be an extraordinary
burden," he said. "I don't know exactly what it's going to cost, but it's going to be significant."
Substitute teachers forced to cut down to working three days a week
October 24, 2013
Lisa Davis, director of finance for LCPS, said substitutes are divided into two categories. Subs who are
certified teachers are paid $91 a day and those who are non-certified are paid $70 a day.
She said under Obamacare, employers are required to provide health insurance to all full-time employees,
and full time is designated as working an average of 30 hours per week. Davis said in light of the new
law, at the beginning of the school year, the district decided to limit subs to only 29 hours a week. She
said there will be a measurement period of between three and 12 months, to determine the average
number of hours for workers, prior to the implementation of Obamacare on Jan 1. 2015. At most, the
measurement period could last from November of 2013 to the end of October 2014, and that is why the
district decided to scale back hours this year. She said if a sub worked more than 30 hours in a week, the
district would be responsible for that person's insurance.
Substitute teachers forced to cut down to working three days a week
October 24, 2013
Dawn Hunter, principal at Northwest Elementary School, said she does not like the law because when
teachers are out for a long period of time, two teachers are required to staff a classroom every week.
"When you have long-term people out for maternity leave, which is usually six weeks, you are talking
having two different people in the classroom each week," she said.
ObamaCare Is Limiting The Future Growth Of A Moving Company In North Carolina.
REPORTER: So how are you going to make up this cost, this $250,000 additional burden? BROOKE
WILSON: Unfortunately, I think its going to limit our ability to expand the business, we may not be
able to add as many trucks to our fleet, we may not be able to open another location. (WRAL,1/14/14)
North Dakota:
State
Premium Increase
Resulting Loss in Weekly

Pay ($) Income Losses
since ACA became Law in
Workers
North Dakota
29.10%
29.76
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
1,488.19
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
1,942
Ohio:
State
Premium Increase
Loss in Weekly Pay

($) Income Losses
since ACA became
Law in Businesses
with 50-99 Workers
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Business with 50-99
Workers
Job Losses in
Businesses with 2049 Workers since
ACA became Law
Ohio
33.30%
29.36
1,467.92
23,379
State
Employer
Action
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Ohio
Wright State University
Public
Ohio
Cincinnati State Technical & Community

College
Public
Ohio
City of Union
Public
Ohio
Portage
Public
Cut hours for sheriff's

deputies to fewer than
30 per week
Dec-13
Ohio
Poelking Bowling Centers
Private
Oct-13
Ohio
White Castle
Private
Limited hiring to parttime

Will limit new hires to
part-time
Ohio
Lake Township
Public
Capped part-time
hours at 28.8 per week
Jun-13
Ohio
Lebanon City
Public
Ohio
Mason
Public

firefighters/paramedic
s
Cut part-time workers
to 20 hours per week
Ohio
Scrambler Marie's Restaurants
Private
Ohio
Westlake
Public
Ohio
Sinclair Community College
Public
Cut student work

hours to a maximum
of 28 per week
Limited hours for
part-timers and
instructional hours for
adjuncts
Cut part-time
firefighters from 39
hours per week to 29
Cut some workers'

hours to less than 30
per week
Limit part-timers to
25 hours per week
Reduced hours for
part-timers to
maximum of 28 per
week and cut course
loads for adjunct
faculty
Date
of
Action
or
Repor
t
May14
Apr-14
Jan-14
Jul-13
18
Jun-13
200
Jun-13
Jun-13
23
Jun-13
May13
Ohio
Tipp City
Public
Cut hours for parttimers to fewer than

30 per week
Lowered cap on
student work hours to
28 per week from 30
18
May13
Ohio
Ohio State University
Public
Ohio
Ohio University
Public
Limited students and

graduate assistants to
28 hours of work per
week when school
isn't in session
May13
Ohio
Cuyahoga Community College
Public
Apr-13
Ohio
University of Akron
Public
Capped hours for

1,559 part-timers at
20 per week
part-time faculty
Ohio
Upper Arlington City School District
Public
Cutting hours for

aides who work with
disabled students from
32.5 per week to 28
Apr-13
Ohio
Columbus State Community College
Public
Apr-13
Ohio
Akron
Public
Reduced hours for

adjunct faculty and
hourly wage earners
to fewer than 30 per
week
Limiting part-timers
per week.
Ohio
Baldwin-Wallace University
Private
Limited course load of

adjunct faculty
Mar13
Ohio
Kent State University
Public
Limited course load of

adjunct faculty
Mar13
Ohio
Lakeland Community College
Public
Limited course loads

for adjunct faculty
Mar13
Ohio
Youngstown City Schools
Public
Cut part-time and

substitute hours to 25
per week
Mar13
Ohio
Bowling Green State University
Public
Mar13
Ohio
Medina City Schools
Public
Capped part-time
and student work
hours at 28
Cut weekly hours for
cafeteria workers and
teacher aides from 30
to 28.75 per week
Ohio
Fairview Park
Public

employees to fewer
than 30 per week
Mar13
Ohio
Shawnee State University
Public
Reduced maximum
teaching load for
adjunct faculty
Mar13
May13
230
Apr-13
Mar13
16
Mar13
Ohio
Brunswick
Public
Capped hours for parttime employees at 28

per week and limited
length of employment
for seasonal workers
Ohio
Medina
Public
Ohio
Tallmadge
Public
Ohio
Fairlawn
Public
Ohio
Sugarcreek Township
Public
Ohio
Stark State College
Public
Ohio
Youngstown State University
Public
Cut part-time hours

from about 35 to 29
per week
Cut hours part-timers
can work to 29 per
week
Lowered limit on parttime hours from 35
per week to less than
30
Capped hours at 28
per week and
eliminated paid time
off for part-timers
Capped hours of
adjunct faculty at 29
per week
Capped hours of parttime employees and
adjunct faculty
Ohio
Western Buckeye Educational Service Center
Public
Limiting hourly
30 hours per week
Feb-13
65
Feb-13
Jan-13
Dec-12
Dec-12
Nov12
Nov12
Nov12
Sinclair will cut worker hours; Part-timers, adjunct professors affected. College cites health care
law mandate for changes.
May 15, 2013
Sinclair Community College will cut the hours that can be worked by part-time employees and adjunct
professors to avoid a looming change in federal law that could require the college to provide those
workers health insurance. Sinclair's Board of Trustees on Tuesday approved a policy limiting part-time
employees to 28 hours per week, down from 30, and restricting adjunct faculty to 11 credit hours in a
semester, down from 14, according to Sinclair. The change will ensure that part-time workers who
currently do not receive health insurance from Sinclair continue to be ineligible when a new requirement
in the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act.
Ohio Restaurant Owner Shane Beukre Is Being Forced To Cut Staff Or Employees. "We talked to
the owner of the restaurant Shane Beukre. He said any business with 50 or more employees will have to
offer insurance to workers with 30 or more hours a week. If he does not do that, he gets fined $2,000 per
employee. Beukre told us he's cutting some people down to under 30 hours to help with costs to his
business and the workers." (Holly Roney, "ObamaCare: Is It Worth If For Local Workers," Toledo News
Now, 6/27/13)
Oklahoma:
State
Premium Increase
Loss in Weekly Pay

($) Income Losses
since ACA became
Law in Businesses
with 50-99 Workers
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Business with 50-99
Workers
Job Losses in
Businesses with 2049 Workers since
ACA became Law
Oklahoma
20.90%
18.33
916.5
4,708
State
Employer
Oklahoma
Treadwell Enterprises (Taco Bell

franchise operator)
Action
Private
Reduced hours for some

full-time workers to parttime
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Jan-13
Oklahoma employers brace for health care law changes State insurance program expires Dec. 31
When Dan Berney, president and co-owner of VI Marketing and Branding, set a goal two years ago to
double his business, he was thinking about revenues, not staff. The good news is 24-year-old VI formerly Visual Image - has hit its target, on track for nearly $50 million in annual revenues this year.
The downside is Berney expects his firm - which ballooned from 25 employees to 48 over the past 20
months - to number 50 soon, a threshold that will make it subject to new health reform mandates that
take effect Jan. 1. Berney already offers a health plan, but he's worried about increased costs, risk of
government audits and a slew of regulations. One rule, for example, is a worker can't pay more than 9.5
percent of his annual salary for individual coverage.
Oregon:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Oregon
16.40%
14.97
State
Employer
Oregon
Shari's restaurants
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
748.63
Action
Private
Adding part-time
workers, cutting hours
for some working more
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
4,123
Jobs with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Jul-13
Affordable Care Act penalty: Roseburg nonprofit says it can't afford insurance, plans to pay fine.
December 30, 2014
"[Susan] Jeremiah is director of human resources at Adapt, which offers drug and alcohol treatment in
three Southern Oregon counties: Douglas, Coos and Jackson. Adapt is a preferred provider for several
major insurance companies in the region and also bills the Oregon Health Plan for outpatient and
residential services provided to low-income clients with addictions. Yet Adapt anticipates getting socked
with a $2,000 per employee penalty for failing to offer benefits by Jan. 1, 2015, as required by the
Affordable Care Act. The requirement applies to all employers, public and private, that have 100 or more
full-time equivalent employees."
No more procrastinating: Oregon employers with 100 full-time employees must provide affordable
health insurance
December 30, 2014
"A good characterization is this: We've got a new game," said Kelsey Wood, principal agent and president
of Gordon Wood Insurance in Roseburg. "Employers are starting to readjust what they're doing in
benefits and why."
1) Wood said a friend who owns several Subway sandwich shops sold half of his franchises to get
under the 50-employee threshold for 2016.
2) He said another employer, a Roseburg-based nonprofit, decided it was less expensive to budget
for a fine than spend more than $1 million annually to buy insurance for its staff.
3) At his own agency, Wood said he discontinued group health insurance back in January, opting
instead to provide a monthly cash payment to his handful of employees to buy policies on their
own, often with the assistance of federal tax credits available through the state health exchange.
For companies like Portland-based boly:welch, that means offering insurance to a minimum of 68 newly
eligible temporary and contract workers in addition to 39 internal employees previously covered.
"The big challenge for us has been how to administer this benefit," said Carie Strahorn, director of HR
recruitment for the women-owned agency. "The biggest concern is the time and resources it takes to track
eligibility with a variable-hour employee roster."
With more than 100 people who may work for a day or a week or up to several months at sites all over the
metro area, it's been a tedious process of figuring out who is eligible for benefits, using an 11-month
"look-back period" allowed under the federal law, Strahorn said.
Employees that averaged at least 30 hours a week or 130 hours per month during the 11-month period are
eligible to enroll in benefits effective Jan. 1. Company officials expect the number of eligible temp
employees to fluctuate monthly as workers come and go or see their hours and assignments changed.
How much all of this costs boly:welch and its client companies, through increased pricing, remains to be
seen.
"There are costs that will be incurred, both direct costs of coverage as well as administrative costs,"
Strahorn said. "Because this is a new and ongoing process, we will know more as we see who chooses to
participate in the program and accepts benefits."
Pennsylvania:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Pennsylvania
17.50%
17.23
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
861.54
Action
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
13,903
State
Employer
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Pennsylvania
Rivers Casino
Private
Limiting part-time
30 hours per week
Pennsylvania
Bristol Township
Public
Cut hours of transport

workers from 40 per
week to 28
May-14
Pennsylvania
Upper Perkiomen School District
Public
Cut hours of special ed

aides and food-service
staff to fewer than 30
per week
57
Feb-14
Pennsylvania
Beaver County
Public
Cut schedules of parttime workers, including

deputies, to fewer than
30 hours per week
Nov-13
Pennsylvania
Penn State University
Public
Nov-13
Pennsylvania
Wyoming Valley West School

District
Public
Cut hours for student

employees to a
maximum of 20 per
week
Cut hours of part-timer
union members to a
limit of 28.75 per week
and provided offsetting
pay raise
Pennsylvania
David's Bridal
Private
Cut full-time
employees to fewer
Nov-13
Pennsylvania
Friendship Community (group home

for adults with disabilities)
Private
Cut part-time hours

below 30 per week
Pennsylvania
Hollywood Casino
Private
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia University
Private
Cut part-timers to
week
Capped hours for
adjunct faculty at fewer
than 30 per week,
effective 2015
Aug-14
Nov-13
20
Sep-13
Sep-13
Aug-13
Pennsylvania
Warkwick School District
Public
Cut teaching assistants

from up to 7 hours per
day to 5.5 hours
30
Aug-13
Pennsylvania
Carnegie Museum
Private
48
Jul-13
Pennsylvania
Lawrence County
Public
Pennsylvania
East Penn School District
Public
Reduced hours for

some part-time
employees below 30
per week
at 28 per week; later
reversed move for
deputies
Reduced hours for 11
food service workers to
29.75 per week
11
Jun-13
Pennsylvania
Southern Lehigh School District
Public
Cut hours of 51 parttime employees to

under 30 per week
51
Jun-13
Pennsylvania
Tredyffrin-Easttown School District
Public
135
Jun-13
Pennsylvania
Brandywine Heights Area School

District
Public
Pennsylvania
Juniata County Schools
Public

aides and
27.5 per week;
suspended cuts due to
employer mandate
delay
Outsourced
instructional aides
working 30 hours per
week
Cut paraprofessionals
per week
Pennsylvania
Ephrata Area School District
Public
Pennsylvania
Dallas School District
Public
Pennsylvania
General McLane School District
Public
Pennsylvania
Firstaff Nursing Services Inc.
Private
Pennsylvania
Lancaster County School District
Public
Jul-13
Jun-13
Jun-13
Capped hours of parttime workers below 30

per week.
Capped hours for
teacher aides at fewer
than 30 per week
May-13

below 30 per week,
affecting secretaries,
instructional and
library aides, and
cafeteria and custodial
workers
Plans to cut full-time
nurses and nursing
assistantsto part-time
and hire more parttimers
Outsourced 100 of
classroom aides and
food service workers to
a private company
May-13
May-13
100
Apr-13
Apr-13
Pennsylvania
Penn Manor School District
Public
Outsourced 96 specialed aides plus provision

of substitute teachers to
a private firm
Pennsylvania
Susquenita School District
Public
Pennsylvania
Loris Angels home care
Private
Pennsylvania
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Public
Cut part-time hours

from 30 per week to
29.5
workers to 29.5 and
shifted to only hiring
part-time
at 29 per week
Pennsylvania
Lancaster County
Public
Pennsylvania
Community College of Allegheny

County
Public
Pennsylvania
West Perry School District
Public
Limited part-time hours

to a maximum of 29
per week
Cut hours for adjunct
faculty and other parttime employees
Limit new instructional
aides to 27.5 hours per
week
Apr-13
61
Apr-13
Mar-13
Mar-13
Feb-13
400
Nov-12
Jan-11
Decision time on Affordable Care Act for small business owners.

October 13, 2013
When Joseph A. Pancerella was putting together his to-do list for 2013, changing health insurance plans
[for his business] wasn't on the agenda... Then he learned about the tax credit. Choosing a health plan
quickly became a multi-tiered decision fraught with personal and financial landmines. "Do I stick with the
current policy and give up what for us might be a $3,900 tax credit, or do I go out on the health care
exchange and look for a comparable policy to get the tax credit?" Pancerella asked. NOTE: Called and
emailed to see if they did switch, but did not hear back.
Dropping Health Plans, To Pick Better Coverage.
December 12, 2013
For nearly 20 years, Keith Perkins offered health insurance to employees of his small electrical
contracting company in Greencastle, Pa., and footed most of the bill. This year, with the arrival of the
Affordable Care Act's insurance marketplace, he decided to stop. Mr. Perkins, who is 54, did the math
and calculated that most of his employees, who are spread across Maryland, West Virginia and
Pennsylvania, would come out ahead if he dropped his group policy and let them buy insurance
individually through the new federal and state exchanges.
Small Business And Affordable Care.
May 18, 2014
How do you increase the portion of your employees with health insurance from about 35 percent to more
than 90 percent? If you're Susquehanna Glass, you stop offering coverage. By doing so, Susquehanna
Glass made its employees eligible for subsidies - technically, "advanced premium tax credits" - in the
individual insurance marketplace created by the Affordable Care Act. "With the subsidies, they are
getting unbelievably affordable insurance," company owner Walter Rowen said. Susquehanna Glass made
the change March 1. Nine out of 10 of his employees now are covered, he said.
Small Businesses Face Steep Hikes; Affordable Care Act Owners Say High Health Insurance Costs
Hurt Them And Their Employees Why This Happened Lots Of Variables How They Cope.
November 21, 2014
If the Affordable Care Act is doing anything to make care affordable for small business, that's news to
Phil Garber, president and co-owner of GFI Transport. Next year, his Mount Joy-based trucking company
will be paying 20 percent more for health insurance. And that's with a worse plan, one that raises the
deductible for a family from $1,500 to $5,000, Garber said. If GFI had kept the plan design it has now,
premiums would have gone up 40 percent, he said. "This is not affordable care for the average person in
the United States," he said.
Small Delco firm hopes to continue tradition of offering benefits.
December 22, 2014
Weinhardt got a bad case of sticker shock - an 87 percent rate increase. Her broker was able to find
Weinhardt a more affordable policy with less coverage. But it left the small-business owner wondering
whether she could sustain her father's tradition. I don't like that I have to consider not offering health care,
says Weinhardt, 54. My frustration is that I don't know where the point is that it is not feasible to offer it.
Rhode Island:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Rhode
Island
18.00%
15.96
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
798.05
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
1,241
South Carolina:
State
Premium Increase
Loss in Weekly Pay

($) Income Losses
since ACA became
Law in Businesses
with 50-99 Workers
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
South Carolina
20.50%
15.29
764.43
5,145
State
Employer
Action
South
Carolina
Kelly Professional Cleaning

Services
Private
ObamaCare employer
penalties "will have to
be recovered from
existing employees in
the reduction of hours,
wage rates and layoffs"
South
Carolina
Spartanburg Community College
Public
South
Carolina
Clemson University
Public
South
Carolina
Tsunami Surf Shops
Private
Cut hours for most

adjunct faculty below
30
Limited student
employees to 28 hours
per week
Will limit workers to
week
Jobs with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Jun-13
90
Jun-13
Oct-13
Aug-13
South Dakota:
State
Premium Increases
Loss in Weekly Pay

($) Income Losses
since ACA became
Law in Businesses
with 50-99 Workers
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
South Dakota
37.90%
28.63
1,431.58
2,274
State
Employer
South
Dakota
South Dakota State University
Action
Public
Limited student work

hours to fewer than 30
per week
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Apr-14
Tennessee:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Tennessee
13.10%
11.41
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
570.34
Action
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
4,485
State
Employer
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Tennessee
Middle Tennessee State University
Public
Capped work hours for

student employees
Aug-14
Tennessee
Johnson City Schools
Public

30 per week
Oct-13
Tennessee
Carter County Schools
Public
Limiting part-time
30 hours per week
Oct-13
Tennessee
Washington County School District
Public
Limiting part-time
30 hours per week
Oct-13
Tennessee
Oneida Special School District
Public
Cut most non-certified

employees to 29 hours
per week, but kept pay
the same
Tennessee
Scott County School System
Public
Capped hours of new

non-certified hires
below 30 per week
Tennessee
Stewart County School System
Public
Reduced hours for

school support staff to
28 per week
Tennessee
Cumberland University
Private

adjunct faculty at 27
hours per week
Jul-13
Tennessee
Regal Entertainment Group
Private
Operator of 500+ movie

theaters cut non-salaried
worker hours below 30
per week
Apr-13
Tennessee
Wytheville Town Council
Public
Reduced limit on parttime hours from 39 per

week to 28
Feb-13
Tennessee
Washington County
Public
Reduced hours for parttimers to fewer than 30

per week
Feb-13
65
Date of
Action
or
Report
Jul-13
Jul-13
120
Jul-13
Learning curve clouds ACA business mandate.

December 29, 2014
"The Springfield-based company [Hollingsworth Oil Co] has about 550 employees and had to create a
special enrollment period in the fourth quarter because its annual enrollment period is in the summer. The
company is self-insured, meaning it takes on financial obligations for employee health insurance costs.
Estimating the additional work resulting from the ACA at 20 hours per week is conservative, said
Williams, who is half of Hollingsworth Oil's human resources department. And there's the additional
$22,000 in taxes the company has to pay on March 15."
Texas:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Texas
19.70%
21.02
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
1,050.87
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
Action
29,885
State
Employer
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Texas
Gaines County
Public
Capped part-time work

Jul-14
Texas
Grayson County
Public
Jul-14
Texas
El Paso Community College
Public
Texas
Lone Star College System
Public
Texas
St. Edward's University
Private
Limited part-time
of 29 hours of work per
week
Cut maximum teaching
loads for part-time
faculty
Enforced teaching-load
limit for part-time
faculty
Cut maximum teaching
loads for adjunct faculty
Texas
Sam Houston State University
Public
Limited student work

hours to 29 per week,
impacting multiple-job
holders
Sep-13
Texas
Consolidated Restaurant Operations

Inc
Private
Limiting hours for new

employees
Aug-13
Texas
Dave & Buster's
Private
Aug-13
Texas
Jim's Restaurants
Private
Cut hours of some

employees to 28 per
week
Intends to reduce hours
of some workers; put
plan on hold due to
employer mandate delay
Texas
Bee County
Public
Jul-13
Texas
Lion & Rose British Restaurant and

Pub
Private
Reduce part-time
employee hours to 24
per week.
Cut hourly full-time
workers' schedules to 28
hours per week
Texas
MTC Inc. restaurant management
Private
Shifted to only hiring

part-time workers
Jul-13
Jan-14
Jan-14
Dec-13
Jul-13
Jul-13
Texas
Matagorda County
Public
Cut hours part-timer can

work from 40 per week
to 29
Jun-13
Texas
Wilson County
Public
Cut part-timers to a
maximum of 29 hours
per week
Jun-13
Texas
Texas Christian University
Private
Reduced hours for

adjunct faculty and parttime employees,
including students, to
Jun-13
Texas
Dallas County Community College

District
Public
Capped courseloads for

2,500 adjunct faculty
members
May-13
Texas
Plano
Public
Cut part-time hours

below 30 per week
45
May-13
Texas
Visiting Nurse Association of El

Paso
Private
Cut hours for caregivers

to 29 per week
330
May-13
Texas
Pillar Hotels & Resorts
Private
Stepped up hiring of
part-time workers
among its 5,500
employees
Nov-12
ObamaCare Mandates Forced Local Texas Entrepreneur To Sell Two Of His Stores "Because It
Would Cost Him 30-Thousand Dollars More Out Of His Payroll." KETK's TERESA SARDINA:
"Bob Westbrook franchise owner tells us, the Affordable Health Care Act is the reason why he sold some
of his stores because it would cost him $30 thousand dollars more out of his payroll." WESTBROOK:
"We knew we had a decision to make and that decision came very swiftly and quickly, when we sold two
of our Cici's Pizza's here in Tyler and we retained the one in Longview but that got us under the 50
employees." (NBC's KETK-TX, 7/15/13)
Utah:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Utah
24.70%
21.4
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
1,069.91
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
State
Employer
Action
Utah
Davis School District
Public
Utah
Millard School District
Public
Utah
Murray School District
Public
Utah
Nebo School District
Public
Utah
Southern Utah Unversity
Public
Limited hourly workers,

including students, to 20
hours per week and
loads
Utah
Alpine School District
Public
Utah
Deseret Industries (work training for

war refugees)
Private
Utah
Cedar City
Public

maximum of 27.5 per
week, avoiding $4.2
million cost
Cut hours of most
week
Capped hours for parttimers and seasonal
workers at 28 per week
Utah
Brigham Young University
Private
Capped hours for parttimers, including

students, at an average of
29 per week.
Utah
Granite School District
Public

school support staff to
below 30 per week
Cut hours for bus drivers

and other support staff to
a maximum of 29.5 per
week
Cut hours for
paraprofessionals from 6
to 5.75 per day
maximum of 20 per
week
Cut hours for part-timers
to 28.75 per week and
stop providing insurance
for some
4,355
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Aug-13
Jul-13
Jun-13
40
Jun-13
Jun-13
800
May-13
May-13
May-13
Apr-13
1000
Mar-13
Utah
Utah Valley University
Public
Limited hourly workers

to a maximum of 28
hours per week and
loads
Feb-13
Utah Small Business Owner Found That The Cost Of His Small Group Health Plan Would Triple
Under ObamaCare.Ogden business owner, Chad Nay was shocked when he found out how much the
cost of his group insurance plan was going up under the Affordable Care Act. As a small business owner,
under 50 employees, the group plan under ObamaCare tripled as far as cost goes of what it would cost me
to cover us as a group, said Nay. (Glen Mills, ACA 101: Utah Business Owners Are Trying To Find
Their Way Through Insurance Changes, KTVX,2/15/14)
Due To The Higher Costs Faced Under ObamaCare, The Owner Cancelled The
Health Plan And Employees Must Now Seek Coverage On The ObamaCare Exchange. The
increased cost wasnt an option, so he decided the best way was for the entire crew at Superior
Computers to individually go to the federal marketplace, healthcare.gov, leading to more
challenges. Now Ive got to find a way, how do I help my guys pay for their private insurance
they had to get through healthcare.gov, said Nay. (Glen Mills, ACA 101: Utah Business
Owners Are Trying To Find Their Way Through Insurance Changes, KTVX,2/15/14)
According To The Owner, ObamaCare Is A Huge Distraction. The thing that

is frustrating tome is Im a business owner, Ive got customers Ive got to take care of, Ive got
a business to run and its a huge distraction having to get all this taken care of, said Nay. (Glen
Mills, ACA 101: Utah Business Owners Are Trying To Find Their Way Through Insurance
Changes, KTVX,2/15/14)
Vermont:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Vermont
15.30%
12.55
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
627.41
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
664
Virginia:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Virginia
17.80%
18.74
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
937.02
State
Employer
Virginia
Frederick County
Public
Virginia
Town of Strasburg
Public
Virginia
Christendom College
Private
Virginia
K-VA-T Food Stores
Private
Virginia
Christoper Savvides restaurant & catering co.
Private
Virginia
Henrico Country School District
Public
Virginia
Lynchburg
Public
Virginia
Rappahannock Area Community Services

Board
Public
Virginia
Wise County School Board
Public
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
9,127
Action
Jobs with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Reduced hours of
part-time
employees to
fewer than 30 per
week
Cut hours of parttime employees to
a maximum of 29
per week
Cut hours for parttime employees,
including
students, to a
maximum of 29
per week
Capped hours for
part-time
employees at
under 30 per week
Stopped hiring
full-time and
limited parttimers hours
Limit hours for
part-timers and
temps to 29 per
week
Cut hours for parttimers from about
32 per week to 28
Jun-14
35
Jun-13

maximum of 29
per week
Limit hours for
part-time workers
to fewer than 30
per week
45
Jun-13
Jun-14
100
Dec-13
Aug-13
Jul-13
Jun-13
May-13
Virginia
Campbell County Social Services Dept.
Public
Virginia
Dickenson County Public Schools
Public
Virginia
Grayson County
Public
Virginia
Strasburg
Public
Virginia
Wythe County
Public
Virginia
Chesterfield Public Schools
Public
Virginia
Tazewell County
Public
Virginia
Richmond Public Schools
Public
Virginia
Spotsylvania County
Public
Virginia
Chesterfield County
Public
Virginia
Louisa County
Public
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Public
Virginia
Christopher Newport University
Public
Cut hours of
family educators,
companion
providers and
part-timers to 29
per week
maximum of 29
per week
maximum of 28
per week
Lowered cap on
part-time hours
from 35 to 29 per
week
maximum of 28
per week
maximum of 28
per week
Lowered cap on
part-time hours
from 32 to 29 per
week
Cut part-time
hours to a
maximum of 28
per week
maximum of 28
per week
Cut hours for up
to "several
hundred" parttimers to 28 per
week
Cut hours for parttime and seasonal
employees to 29
per week
Cut hours for parttimers and adjunct
faculty to 29 per
week
faculty to 29 per
week
May-13
May-13
May-13
May-13
May-13
2000
Apr-13
Apr-13
Apr-13
40
Apr-13
115
Mar-13
140
Mar-13
Feb-13
483
Feb-13
Virginia
College of William & Mary
Public
Virginia
Norfolk State University
Public
Virginia
Virginia government (all other departments)
Public
Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth University
Public
Virginia
Virginia Community College System
Public
Virginia
Virginia Dept. of Alcoholic Beverage Control
Public
Virginia
Virginia Dept. of Conservation and Recreation
Public
Virginia
Virginia Employment Commission
Public
Virginia
Wytheville
Public
Virginia
Dept. of Behavioral Health and

Developmental Services
Public
Virginia
Dept. of Motor Vehicles
Public
Virginia
George Mason University
Public
Virginia
James Madison University
Public

faculty to 29 per
week
faculty to 29 per
week
Cut hours for parttime and hourly
wage workers to
29 per week
faculty to 29 per
week
faculty to 29 per
week
wage workers to
29 per week
wage workers to
29 per week
wage workers to
29 per week
Lowered cap on
part-time hours
from 39 to 28 per
week
Cut hours for
wage employees
to a maximum of
29 per week
Cut hours for
wage employees
to a maximum of
29 per week
Cut hourly wage
workers, including
students and
adjuncts, to a
maximum of 29
hours per week
Cut hourly wage
workers, including
students and
adjuncts, to a
maximum of 29
331
Feb-13
504
Feb-13
1,235
Feb-13
883
Feb-13
1,479
Feb-13
605
Feb-13
500
Feb-13
433
Feb-13
Feb-13
Feb-13
Feb-13
Feb-13
Feb-13
hours per week
Virginia
Longwood University
Public
Virginia
Old Dominion University
Public
Virginia
Radford University
Public
Virginia
Shenandoah County
Public
Virginia
University of Mary Washington
Public
Cut hourly wage

workers, including
students and
adjuncts, to a
maximum of 29
hours per week
Cut hourly wage
workers, including
students and some
adjuncts, to a
maximum of 29
hours per week
Capped teaching
loads for adjunct
faculty
Limiting part-time
workers to fewer
than 30 hours per
week
Cut hourly wage
workers, including
students and
adjuncts, to a
maximum of 29
hours per week
Feb-13
Feb-13
Feb-13
Feb-14
Feb-13
Health-care law is tied to new caps on work hours for part-timers.

July 23, 2013
For Kevin Pace, the presidents health-care law could have meant better health insurance. Instead, it
produced a pay cut. Like many of his colleagues, the adjunct music professor at Northern Virginia
Community College had managed to assemble a hefty course load despite his official status as a part-time
employee. But his employer, the state, slashed his hours this spring to avoid a Jan. 1 requirement that all
full-time workers for large employers be offered health insurance.
Health-care law uncertainty grips Old Town Alexandria cafe and other small businesses
March 20, 2013
Jody Manor has run a small cafe and catering company for nearly three decades in Old Town
Alexandria, only a few blocks from where he was born. Six years ago he purchased an adjoining building,
and more recently he started searching for a second location. Whether he moves forward with expansion
depends on the price tag of the requirements mandated by the Affordable Care Act, President Obamas
signature health-care initiative. Manors company employs 45 people. If he brings in just five more, his
business would soon be subject to new minimum coverage standards under the 2010 law and he does
not know whether his current health plan would meet this threshold of coverage or how his premiums
might be affected.
SMALL BIZ STILL AILING; The ACA has helped individuals, but employers continue to struggle
with the new law.
September 1, 2014
For Pam Poldiak, an adviser at Partners in Financial Planning, the problem hit home. Her firm obtained
group insurance coverage nearly two years ago, when it came to light that an employee's health condition
made obtaining her own coverage cost prohibitive. The firm renewed its group coverage last December
before the ACA rules on coverage went into effect for 2014. But now, Partners in Financial Planning is
facing a 130% premium increase in December plus the prospect of undoing its coverage plan and
providing workers with a stipend to buy their own coverage. NOTE: Called and left message, have not
heard back.
Virginia Businessman Bill Saxman Said That He Has Held Off On Expanding His Business
"Because He Doesn't Know What His Costs Will Be" After ObamaCare Is Enacted. "Saxman also
told Cuccinelli Friday that he's running out of space at his Staunton facility and he would like to expand,
but he can't afford to right now, because he doesn't know what his costs will be next year, when the new
healthcare system takes effect." (Editorial, "Businesses Need Stability," Waynesboro News Virginian ,
7/15/13)
Washington:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Washington
15.60%
15.98
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
798.99
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
5,964
West Virginia:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
West
Virginia
26.40%
22.33
State
Employer
West
Virginia
Brooke County
Public
West
Virginia
Blue Ridge Community And

Technical College
Public
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
1,116.26
Action
Cut schedules for parttime ambulance

personnel to fewer than
30 per week
Capped adjunct teaching
loads, limiting work
hours to no more than 29
per week
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
2,575
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Dec-13
May-13
Obamacare delay a relief for auto dealer.

July 21, 2013
Expecting higher health expenses, Thornhill's dealership is looking to economize, he said, perhaps in jobs
such as washers, greeters or "porters" who move cars around the lots.
"We're looking at everything," he said. "Knowing the cost is going up, what can we do to survive? If you
make 2 percent, you're a good car dealer."
Wisconsin:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Wisconsin
11.70%
9.96
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
497.86
Action
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
4,329
State
Employer
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Wisconsin
Lakeland College
Private
Wisconsin
Coach's Fast Food (Burger King

franchisee)
Private
Wisconsin
Waupaca
Public

30 per week
Wisconsin
Minocqua-Hazelhurst-Lake
Tomahawk School District
Public

below 30 per week
Jul-13
Wisconsin
Trig's Supermarkets
Private
Jul-13
Wisconsin
Oconomowoc Area School District
Public

week.
Cut paraprofessionals to
week
Wisconsin
Mount Horeb Area School District
Public
Cut paraprofessional
hours to 25 per week
36
May-13
Wisconsin
Chippewa County
Public
Cut part-time hours

below 30 per week
15
Apr-13
Wisconsin
Land's End
Private
Reduced hours for parttimers to a maximum of

29 per week
Feb-13
Wisconsin
Lomira School District
Public
Reduced hours for

classified staff to 29 per
week
Feb-13
Cut summer work hours

for students from 40 per
week to a maximum of
29
Cutting part-time
schedules to fewer than
30 per week
Date of
Action
or
Report
Mar-14
Dec-13
Nov-13
Jun-13
ACA PUTS SMALL BUSINESSES IN A BIND

December 15, 2013
Matthew Gonnering, CEO of Widen Enterprises, isn't the kind of boss who wants his employees to go
without health care coverage. If nothing else, he explained at a recent gathering, offering health insurance
helps attract and retain the kind of talent necessary to run his tech related business. However, rising health
care costs and the advent of the federal Affordable Care Act combined to make things more complicated
for Gonnering and his team at Widen, a digital asset management company in Madison. As Gonnering
told a recent meeting of the Wisconsin Innovation Network, Widen was faced with a 12 percent rate hike
in 2014 for its existing coverage, modifying its coverage to share some costs with employees, or ending
company-sponsored coverage and letting workers fend for themselves on the federal government's health
insurance marketplace "exchange." In the end, Gonnering said, the company elected to keep its existing
coverage plan with employees sharing in premium payments, something they didn't pay in the past. That
will continue for at least one year while the company waits for the small business side of ACA, or
"Obamacare," to sort itself out.
Wyoming:
State
Premium Increase

with 50-99 Workers
Wyoming
34.00%
32.19
State
Employer
Wyoming
Sweetwater County School District

#1
Loss in Annual
Earnings ($) Income
Losses since ACA
became Law in
Workers
1,609.58
Action
Public
Cut hours of part-timers

and substitutes from 1 to
5 hours per week
Job Losses in
Workers since ACA
became Law
1,453
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
250
Date of
Action
or
Report
May-14
Washington D.C.
State
Employer
Washington
DC
Clyde's Restaurant Group
Action
Private
Shifting mix of workers

toward more part-timers
Jobs
with
fewer
hours, if
specified
Date of
Action
or
Report
Jun-13
Unidentified/National:
ObamaCare Spurs Cuts In Sick Leave For Part-Time Staff; More Macaroni & Sneeze? Sick leave
is included in 30-hour threshold for law's employer mandate
March 31, 2014
For a trillion-dollar law devoted to public health, it's ironic that one ObamaCare side-effect may be for
more food-service workers to show up to work sick. Sodexo USA, whose 100,000-plus employees
provide food services at colleges and other schools across the country, has acknowledged eliminating sick
days for workers being reclassified as part-time. The accumulation of paid sick days (as well as personal
and vacation days) counts toward the law's full-time threshold of 30 hours per week, at which employer
penalties for failing to offer coverage apply.
Wegmans May Cut Health Benefits for Part-Time Employees
July 11, 2013
Wegmans has previously been applauded for its health benefits, and has consistently made the list of
Fortune magazine's list of the top companies to work for. Wegmans has been praised for voluntarily
offering health insurance to part-time employees, The Buffalo News reported. By law, an employer is
obligated to offer health insurance only to full-time employees who work 30 or more hours each week, or
130 hours each month. Many Wegmans employees said the change in eligibility requirements was related
to the Affordable Care Act, a controversial 2010 health care overhaul dubbed "Obamacare" that requires
employers to provide "affordable" health insurance if they have more than 50 full-time workers. If they
don't they could face thousands of dollars in hefty penalty fees, though the implementation of this
provision was recently postponed until the end of 2015.
US employers slashing worker hours to avoid Obamacare insurance mandate

September 30, 2013
The wife of a Trader Joe's part-time worker who contacted the Guardian in response to a callout said her
husband was so concerned about potential cost increases, he was considering not buying healthcare
insurance at all...She told the Guardian that she and her children had been covered by her husband's
company, Trader Joe's, until he was informed in August that, as a part-time worker of 30 hours or less, his
healthcare benefits would no longer be paid when the ACA comes into effect. An internal memo by
Trader Joe's announced that each affected employee would be given $500 and said it hoped that "many of
you should be able to obtain healthcare coverage at very little if any net cost to you". A college student,
she said her research had shown that the cost of an alternative plan would be greater than the $500 they
will receive. Her husband previously paid $99 for coverage, she said.
Health Overhaul Leads To Shorter Work Hours
March 25, 2015
The laws requirement that larger employers provide affordable insurance to workers putting in 30-plushour weeks has led some companies to cap the number of hours employees can log. A survey out Tuesday
from the Society for Human Resource Management finds that 14% of employers have cut back on hours
for part-time employees, and an additional 6% plan to do so. The survey, which included more than 740
human-resources professionals, found that a small subset of companies were considering reducing hours
for full-time employees tooSome companies just arent aware of the risks when they start rejiggering
hours, Mr. Napoli said. Others think they can maneuver in a way to stay on the right side of the law, or
they simply decide the potential downside is worth it. For some employers, this is a matter of whether
they can keep the doors open or not. Its that serious, Mr. Napoli said. As of now, it isnt completely
clear what strategies companies are legally allowed to use. This is a very uncomfortable time for
employers because theyre asked to make 100% decisions on less than 100% information, Mr. Napoli
said.
COPY OF SURVEY
Subway Franchisee: "To Tell Somebody That You've Got To Decrease Their Hours Because Of A
Law Passed In Washington Is Very Frustrating To Me." "'To tell somebody that you've got to
decrease their hours because of a law passed in Washington is very frustrating to me,' said Loren
Goodridge, who owns 21 Subway franchises, including a restaurant in Kennebunk. 'I know the impact I'm
having on some of my employees.'" (Lisa Myers and Carroll Ann Mears, "Businesses Claim ObamaCare
Has Forced Them To Cut Employee Hours," CNBC, 8/13/13)
A Family-Owned Trucking Business Says That High Health Care Costs Led It To Reduce
Insurance Benefits - As A Result Of ObamaCare, The Business Faces A $100,000 Tax
Bill. REPORTER: "Clyde Kerns is part of the reason that some people have fought against what
opponents call ObamaCare. He wrote several letters telling McHenry the act threatens his family owned
trucking company, based in Grover." KERNS: "If I'm not blessed by the grace of God, then we'll not
gonna continue to exist." REPORTER: "Kerns said he decided long ago to cut insurance benefits for his
81 workers because the rates skyrocketed and it cost the company too much. He would be penalized under
the new plan." KERNS: "The tax will be over a hundred thousand dollars." REPORTER: "Kerns said that
he sympathizes for the people who believe they need insurance. But he said that he should have the right
to offer his employees more money instead of providing coverage." (WSOC, 8/13/13)
ObamaCare Will Cost Tyson Foods, A Major Arkansas Employer, $10 Million Next Year. "And
while polls show the race tight, some surveys also say that when voters learn Pryor was an Obamacare
supporter, they are less inclined to vote for him. This was the same dynamic that doomed Lincoln in
2010, and as the law is being implemented, businesses in Arkansas are now complaining about the rising
health care costs, including $10 million of additional costs Arkansas-based food giant Tyson will have to
incur next year because of the new law. (Manu Raju, "Lone Arkansas Democrat Mark Pryor Hangs
On," Politico, 8/19/13)
ObamaCare May Force Hollywood Productions To Be Shot In Foreign Countries, Costing

American Jobs. One of the unintended consequences, say some industry insiders, is that it could lead to
productions running to foreign countries, given that ACA doesn't apply to U.S. citizens working abroad.
(Paul Bond, ObamaCare Hit Hollywood: Studios Brace For The Affordable Care Act, Hollywood
Reporter , 6/26/13)

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Loss in Weekly Pay ($)

Cut hours for part-time

Cut hours for part-time

Cut hours of part-time

Capped student work

University of North Alabama

Capped work hours at

Balloons Are Everywhere

Loss in Weekly Pay ($)

Cut hours for part-time

Job Losses in Businesses

Loss in Weekly Pay ($)

Michael Monti's La Casa Vieja

Arizona State University

Maricopa Community Colleges

University of Arizona in Tucson

Job Losses in Businesses

Cut hours for parttimers to a maximum

Limited course loads

Small businesses struggle on health insurance.

Loss in Weekly Pay ($)

Arkansas Tech University

Lowered cap on student

Pulaski Technical College

Capped course loads for

Area Agency on Aging of Western

Arkansas State University

Cut hours for staff of

Loss in Weekly Pay ($)

Capped student work

Mexican American Opportunity

Cut student work hours

Cut some workers to

San Diego Community College

CKE Restaurants Inc.

Will limit work

Cut hours for most parttime workers below 30

Reduced hours for parttimers to fewer than 30

North of the River Recreation and

Cut hours for part-time

University of San Francisco

Loss in Weekly Pay ($)

RE-1 Valley School District

University of Colorado - Colorado

Colorado Mountain College

Fountain Fire Dept.

Mountain Del (Del Taco franchisee)

Cut 4.25 full-timeequivalent

Loss in Weekly Pay ($)

Employee or Contractor? Health Care Law Raises Stakes

Health law hits public-sector part-timers

Loss in Weekly Pay ($)

Delaware state government

Cut hourly and seasonal

Loss in Weekly Pay ($)

Miami-Dade County Public Schools

Bealls Inc. (Department Stores)

Eastern Florida State College

H2Only Renewable Cleaning

Buca di Beppo restaurant chain

Hillsborough Community College

Cut hours of all parttime workers to a

Job Losses in Businesses