Small Firms See Pain in Health Care Law

"franchisees are looking at ways to avoid the requirement by cutting workers'
schedules so they work fewer than 30 hours a week—the law's definition of a
part-time worker —since only full-time workers are counted toward the insurance
coverage requirement."

"A question for franchisees is whether the federal government will count their
employees based on the combined number at all their outlets or treat each outlet as
a separate business."

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