Administrators at Ferguson-Florissant and other districts say new federal health care guidelines are indirectly adding to the substitute shortage.
The complication stems from a provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires those who are averaging more than 30 hours a week to be offered health insurance.
School districts say they can’t afford that expense, and so they are limiting the hours that substitutes can work. And that means districts have to find other substitutes.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/sub-shortage-in-hazelwood-hurts-students-teachers-say/article_4c83e523-bc4a-53ce-9e2b-98bae6ea3b14.html
Which explains why most of the hires in recent years have been part-time ones. This may also account for the lower number of unemployment claims, as people bounce from one part-time job to another.
It is called survival. The companies are doing what they can to remain above water.
At 30 hrs. a week,I would imagine that most people aren’t thinking so much about insurance as they are in just staying alive.
Who would have guessed that making full-time employees more expensive would encourage employers to shift their workers to part-time employment? That side effect was totally unexpected.
No one saw this coming /s.