Wednesday, January 07, 2015

White House threatens to veto 40-hour bill

The Hill reports:
President Obama formally threatened Wednesday to veto a bipartisan bill changing ObamaCare's definition of full-time work from 30 hours to 40 hours a week, arguing the measure would cause the shift to part-time work that it claims to fix.

"While the administration appreciates the concerns that result from the current 30-hour definition of full-time work, there is no evidence that this has caused a broad shift to part-time work to date," the White House said in a Statement of Administration Policy.

"By moving the threshold to 40 hours, this legislation could cause the problem it claims to solve by greatly increasing the number of workers for whom employers may have an incentive to reduce hours to avoid the requirement."
Will a future Republican President defined "full time" work 168 hours a week to get around ObamaCare?