[jimmygrapes]

Everybody I know who works in the service industry works more than this, yet is not offered any sort of employer health care option. Is there something I'm missing, or do these employers rely on employees not knowing this?

[nightpool]

Some of them maybe comes down to "people are technically only scheduled for 29.5 hours but are pressured into working overtime or coming in when they're not scheduled, which doesn't count towards full-time healthcare accrual"?

[syshum]

IRS requires employers to look at no less than 3 and no more than 12 calender months (chosen by the employer) to set average hours. "Scheduled" is not a factor in the law, it is how many hours the employee works on average over the "lookback" period

[dragonwriter]

Do they work for large (>50 full-time employees) employers?