Is Obamacare Forcing You to Work Part-Time?
Conservatives say the health law is pushing people into part-time work. That's not what the numbers show.
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Here's the next conservative argument against President Barack Obama's health care law: It's causing employers to shift full-time workers into part-time. Too bad it's wrong.
The law requires employers to sponsor health insurance for all full-time employees. It defines "full-time" as 30 hours per week or more. To avoid that burden, conservatives are saying, businesses are replacing full-time positions with part-time ones.