Bass, Berry, & Sims, PLC, a law firm based in Tennessee, has released an issue brief on the impact of health reform on part-time employees. While the new health law does not require that employers provide coverage to part-time employees, if part-time workers are indeed provided coverage, then there is no differentiation between full-time and part-time employees when it comes to provisions in the bill that expand coverage, including those that ban lifetime and annual dollar limits on coverage, prohibiting pre-existing condition exclusions, and extending dependent coverage through age 26.
The new law, however, does distinguish between full-time and part-time employees when calculating the employer "pay-or-play" mandate. Although the mandate applies only to full-time employees, part-time workers are employees' hours of service are calculated to determine the number of FTEs.
Click here to read the entire issue brief.
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