Superintendents say Obamacare’s 30-hour work week bad for schools

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The School Superintendents Association [AASA] supports changing Obamacare’s definition of a full-time employee from 30 hours a week to 40.

The 30-hour full-time threshold “limits the ability of schools to meet the delicate staffing balance that’s needed to successfully administer educational programs,” Noelle Ellerson, the Associate Executive Director of Policy & Advocacy at the AASA, told the Washington Examiner. “It’s an arbitrary limit that’s counter to the longstanding American tradition of the work week being 40 hours.”

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