My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: Colorado
I am trying to find out information for a friend. She is working at a large chain of grocery stores in Colorado. She was hired last week as a part-time, and was told that she would be scheduled between 20-35hrs per week. During her first week of work, she has been told by many co-workers that they frequently schedule part-timers to work 40 (or more) hours per week.
Understanding that FLSA does not define what constitutes full and part time, doesn't the ACA stipulate that anything over 30 hours is considered full time, and therefore insurance has to be provided? If that is not in effect right now, do we know when that goes into effect? I thought that it already had, but apparently not.
She is currently on medicaid and food stamps, and while she is okay with losing her food stamps, she cannot afford to lose her medicaid as the cost for insurance in the state exchanges is way too high for her to afford (if she also wants to eat). She has been having trouble finding full-time work which is why she went with part-time to begin with, so simply leaving for a full-time job is not the easy solution there.
Thanks in advance for any answers provided.

