According to reports at CNN, the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare isn’t having much of an impact on hiring by businesses. From the article:
Employers with at least 100 full-time workers must offer health insurance to full-time employees who work 30 or more hours a week or pay a penalty, as of this year. This mandate will start applying to smaller companies with 50 or more full-timers in 2016.
But few employers report changing their staffing or hiring because of Obamacare, according to the 2015 Kaiser Family Foundation/Health Research & Education Trust survey, released Tuesday.
Only 4% of employers with at least 50 full-time workers said they shifted some staffers from full-time to part-time schedules so that they wouldn’t qualify for health care. And another 4% said they were reducing the number of full-time employees they planned to hire because of the cost of health benefits.