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  • 04-22-2015, 11:09 PM
    ellis
    How to Hire Part-Time Help Without Having to Provide Benefits
    My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: WA

    Hello, I'm in a position to hire part time seasonal workers. Is there any maximum number of hours I need to be concerned with as in 'not to exceed' for these employees? Their schedules could range from 20 to 40 hours per week with no benefits. This 'shop' only has 12 employees, some are year around full time with benefits but again, the 2 or 3 seasonal (summer jobs) won't have benefits and the thought occurred to me that with Obamacare or something similar, I may need to watch the high end of their hours. thanks for any pointers.
  • 04-23-2015, 06:26 AM
    cbg
    Re: How to Hire Part-Time Help Without Having to Provide Benefits
    As long as you have under 50 employees you are not required to offer health insurance.
  • 04-23-2015, 11:05 AM
    eerelations
    Re: How to Hire Part-Time Help Without Having to Provide Benefits
    Quote:

    Quoting cbg
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    As long as you have under 50 employees you are not required to offer health insurance.

    I believe that's in the whole company, not just reporting to the OP, right?
  • 04-23-2015, 11:30 AM
    flyingron
    Re: How to Hire Part-Time Help Without Having to Provide Benefits
    It's 50 Full Time equivalent employees, so you can have 100 half time employees. Full time is determined at 30 hours or more a week.
    There are special rules for seasonal workers as well. And yes it is over the ENTIRE company and it follows the determination that similar laws (like EEOC) follow that companies owned by the same owner are counted as the same company for this.
  • 04-23-2015, 11:49 AM
    cbg
    Re: How to Hire Part-Time Help Without Having to Provide Benefits
    I read it as 12 in the company. If I misread, I apologize for a mis-leading answer. Yes, that is 50 in the entire company. Or, as Ron says, 100 half time.
  • 04-23-2015, 12:08 PM
    eerelations
    Re: How to Hire Part-Time Help Without Having to Provide Benefits
    Thanks for the clarification. I just thought that when OP said "This shop" when describing his workplace instead of "The shop", there was a small possibility that his shop is one of several others within a single company.
  • 04-23-2015, 12:20 PM
    cbg
    Re: How to Hire Part-Time Help Without Having to Provide Benefits
    You may be right. I may have read it wrong. Perhaps the OP will come back and clarify.
  • 04-23-2015, 02:10 PM
    flyingron
    Re: How to Hire Part-Time Help Without Having to Provide Benefits
    Note that it's specifically not a single location (like FMLA rules which counts employees in a 75 mile zone) but across all the company and companies owned or related to the same owner (similar to the EEOC rules). Our HR department (OK, one lady) was taken to task as they would not consider our wholely owned subsidiary to be a small company when it was part of a larger holding company.
  • 04-23-2015, 03:15 PM
    Who'sThatGuy
    Re: How to Hire Part-Time Help Without Having to Provide Benefits
    Just a question.

    What happens in the case of a business that is a franchise?

    Let's say you own one small business that employee 25 people and there are 49 more locations that employee 25 people each, but each of those locations have a different owner. And all locations are under the franchise of a parent company, so all 50 locations have the same name.
  • 04-23-2015, 04:34 PM
    flyingron
    Re: How to Hire Part-Time Help Without Having to Provide Benefits
    A business that can demonstrate it is organizationally independent like a single franchisee is a distinct business for it's own 50 employee count . However around here it's not uncommon for someone to own a dozen or so franchisees. Even if he incorporates all the individual outlets separately, it would be viewed as the same company. Lots of case history and interpretation on this.
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